Herselves

Abstract

Video installation; printmaking (photo-plate lithography on rice paper), chine-coll.

As an Iranian woman artist who immigrated to Canada two years ago, my research creation examines ways of visualizing the notion of simultaneity in the lives of today’s migrants, in the sense of living between several cultures and multiple states of mind. In my work, I intend to show the shifts and reconstructions that take place in one’s identity as the result of immigration and living in a different culture, with the lens of simultaneity in identity, place, and language.