ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an Iranian artist. In my current studio practice, I am trying to depict traumas caused by dilemmas related to borders and boundaries. I believe the way we perceive the concepts of borders and boundaries greatly influences our ability to empathize with those considered “others”.
I suggest that our bodies, domestic spaces, and home countries function as three parallel homes on different levels. Seeing the parallels between the issues in these three levels makes the suffering of displacement tangible. Better processing, understanding, and challenging issues in any of these levels reveal that they can be about relationships and processes in other levels as well.
I have a threefold goal in my research: First, I am trying to explore what is going on behind the “closed doors” of domestic spaces. Second, I want to evoke the severe and ongoing brutality towards women within the borders of my country, Iran. Finally, I want to depict the traumas that a single body is going to suffer on an inter and intrapersonal level.
If we let them, many borders exist to divide us, and our minds have the potential to make more. I want to show there is not much difference but mostly similarities among humankind. My story, my hope, and my pain are that of a normal person, the same as any other human.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I am an Iranian artist. In my current studio practice, I am trying to depict traumas caused by dilemmas related to borders and boundaries. I believe the way we perceive the concepts of borders and boundaries greatly influences our ability to empathize with those considered “others”.
I suggest that our bodies, domestic spaces, and home countries function as three parallel homes on different levels. Seeing the parallels between the issues in these three levels makes the suffering of displacement tangible. Better processing, understanding, and challenging issues in any of these levels reveal that they can be about relationships and processes in other levels as well.
I have a threefold goal in my research: First, I am trying to explore what is going on behind the “closed doors” of domestic spaces. Second, I want to evoke the severe and ongoing brutality towards women within the borders of my country, Iran. Finally, I want to depict the traumas that a single body is going to suffer on an inter and intrapersonal level.
If we let them, many borders exist to divide us, and our minds have the potential to make more. I want to show there is not much difference but mostly similarities among humankind. My story, my hope, and my pain are that of a normal person, the same as any other human.
© Shahrbanoo Hamzeh