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Isolation Time

Isolation Time I am a photographer and visual artist originally from abroad. Interactive installation with a board game is the media I choose to show my artistic work, where form, scale, and senses merge. The connection between concepts is a strong ingredient that unites what seems separate. My research revolves around symbols and communication through games, especially among surrealist artists. Symbols, as a hidden social convention, is a silent master that shapes our physical world. My artwork is an attempt to create a world that the viewer knows is fabricated yet allows them to respond with their personal views. My installations reflect alternative associations with what is considered natural. My imagery depicts the symbolic world because it is a common language between the viewer and myself -- of expected, yet uncontrollable phenomenon. Feelings and interpretations are so heavily influenced by one ’ s environment, yet completely disregarded by it. Conversely, in my installations, e...
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HASHTI

  HASHTI  It’s a playable installation that people can touch and play with them according to the instructions. Each octagon made from the mat and some of them have a photo pattern of some famous battlefield in the world. The tiles are the symbol of lands and the abstraction photos on some tiles are the symbol of an extinct documentary. The abstraction photos point to extinct documentary photography and also it shows manipulated photos are much acceptable by galleries. The geometry is a metaphor for logic and the octagon shapes are a symbol of communication places in middle eastern houses. This is a metaphor for modern battle, I a, trying to make some questions for the viewers, and I’d like to remind them what we lost by technologies. "Hashti" exhibits mixing performance, sculpture, and interactive installation with touches of Kurd and Persian was cited by some as an "a powerful and disturbing installation that poses urgent questions of our time and pushes the spectator i...
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Tangible things

Tangible things Tangible things invite readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and abstract things like the safety pins across the leaves.  By human-centric ideas, we make a definition for everything. In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history and humans are in the center of this history. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link between present and past. Human as a definition machine makes meaning for everything. In this collection like some other of my works, I am trying to expose a translation from photos to sculpture, to keep documentation in memory. I want to make a historic memory of regions that are forgotten. I am curious about the translation of images among cultures. How much the meaning of documentary photos changed from time to time by focusing on the middle east to the US?  This plant was a small bud when I put safety pins on the le...
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ZOETROPE

  “Zoetrope narrates an immigrant photographer’s point of view. It is a metaphor of its creator’s observation; it is the story of an artist split between two societies, the Middle East and the West. The artwork is a contrast performatively shown in the woods by the dancer, who, resembling the illusion in Zoetrope, experiences a sense of vertigo with respect to the hegemony of surveillance images in the contemporary era. The work conveys life experiences through self-interactions with, and within, the environment. A viewer is sentenced to observing freely and through a virtual world simultaneously. The act of spinning, broken dance, and contrast of soft body and harsh nature the video until the whole becomes an amorphic form, transforms previously polished works of images and challenges the accepted ways of viewing images in society. The goal is for the viewer to receive the work with a feeling of whirling, repetition, and a loss of balance reinforced by the accompanying video.” Sec...
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METAMORPHOSIS

Metamorphosis narrates an immigrant photographer's point of view. It is a metaphor of its creator; it is the story of an artist split between two societies, the Middle East and the West. The artwork is a humorously large, rough, sphere-shaped ball performatively rolled in the street by the artist, who, resembling the Sisyphean myth or perhaps a dung beetle, experiences a sense of vertigo with respect to the hegemony of photographs in the contemporary era. The work conveys life experiences through self-interactions with, and within, the environment. A photographer is sentenced to observing freely and through a lens simultaneously. Mirroring this, Metamorphosis juxtaposes straight photography with a radically manipulated imaging process. The pieces of paper conforming the sphere take us back to the history of photography before the digital era. The act of crumpling, tearing, and scratching the surfaces until the whole becomes an amorphic form, transforms previously polished works of ...
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