Domesticated Female
Birth, Entrapment, and Freedom
Title: Balance
Medium: Video
DS90 HD Nikon camera
6.47 minutes
I created this video as I was exploring the different parts of myself. In Iran, women are often treated as if they are borderless. I now live in Canada where my borders as a woman and as a human being are respected. In Balance, I am showing you the journey of my survival in Iran. I have used my traditional clothing “the hijab” to show my movement from living in a world with no borders to living in a world with healthy borders.
Other
TheCUBE
Medium: Installation
Instruction: Plywood, wood bed, sheets, projector, computer, prison bars, plastic rat, plastic cockroach, tray, plate, glass, leftover food, blue lamp, foam board and wires. Sculpture: bamboo sticks, newspapers, wrapping tape, clothing.
TheCUBE is the symbol for religions that punish the unruly; It is also the prison of her mind filled with religious beliefs.
Multiple Self Portrait
Medium: Digital Photography
Size: 15” x 48”
In these double self-portrait series, I have tried to show the two sides of me that I had to develop in order to survive during those years living in Iran.
Birth, Entrapment, and Freedom
Medium: Sculpture
Acrylic, Mustard seeds, Fimo clay, tracing paper, invisible threads.
Size: 10” X 10” X 30”
I am inspired by the notion of transformation. Like these sculptures, living inside the box and then moving to Canada have given me a chance to transform myself through art.
Coffin
Medium: Photography
Size: 10” X 30”
In this picture, I would like to simulate the feeling of being inside of a coffin. The viewer looks up and sees disturbed faces looking down.
Domesticated female - Turkey
Medium: Clay Sculpture
Size: 7” x 3” x 10”
Domesticated female is a series of 4 sculptures. Thy are part domesticated animal and part human.
Domesticated female - Cattle
Medium: Clay Sculpture
Size: 7” x 5” x 15”
Domesticated female - Pig
Medium: Clay Sculpture
Size: 7” x 5” x 16”
Domesticated female - Beast
Medium: Clay Sculpture
Size: 6” x 7” x 19”
Multiple Self Portrait II
Multiple Self Portrait III
