The Metamorphosis of Memory

Persepolis: What lays in the abyss it has created.

2011 - 2013

Single channel video. Musical santoor instrument and football stadium anthem. 4 minutes. Collection of the Artist.

Materials: L.E.D Kebab shop sign, plaster, silver paint. Persian rug. Collection of the Artist.

Theories on Diaspora can be both regional and global in the definition. Diaspora artists affected by global migration propose for themselves hybrid identities simultaneously influencing the new environments they live in. The homeland is not a memory of a fixed place in time, but rather it is a discourse that engages the past, present and future all at once.