marks in the making

2022
Beyond the material and physical aspect, understanding of home lies in the intersection of socially accepted, romanticized notions as a safe, comforting and nurturing shelter with the diverse subjective experiences that can entail alienation, anxiety and stress. Alison Blunt and Robyn Dowling (2006) develop a concept of home through critical geography to draw out the relation between the place of home with, scale, identity and power that exists within the space (pp. 2-3). This theoretical concept contains a wide and multifaceted view where the architecture of the place intersects with emotional, experiential, and socio-cultural significance.

room of her own

2019

Inspired by the story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" by Canadian writer Alice Munro, Room of Her Own investigates the possibility of creating a narrative through the arrangement of fragmented everyday objects. This work exhibited at YACTAC, Vancouver BC.  

no place, good place

ongoing project on the concept of Utopia, this project started at RUD 5, Bengtsfors, and presented at Sikås Art Center, Sweden in 2018 
In his book Utopia (1516), Sir Thomas More gives a very specific description of what he thinks the island of Utopia would look like. After More, a number of artists and illustrators tried to visualize this island, yet they consistently failed to match their images to the island described by More.
Embracing the impossibility of illustrating the island of Utopia "No Place, Good Place" is a project that seeks the shape of Utopia within the existing spaces that linger on the threshold of place/non-place.

This work exhibited at Sikås Biennale, Sikås Art Center, Sweden. 

reset

Beyond Spectacle Residency, Simon Fraser University,
2017
This project explores the idea of revolution through fragmented collage of moving images from Iranian Revolution of 1979. The research essay part of this project (in progress) questions the aspects of the revolution that ties revolution to the idea of progress.

archeology of dreamed-reality

Morris and Helen Belkin art Gallery, Thesis Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2014
Extensive research project on the existential understanding of anxiety from the early 20th century Europe to the present time, this work draws from the work of Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno and their definition and understanding of anxiety, dream, revolution and peace.