picture me in diaspora,
2018
mirror 50x60 cm
c-prints 9 x 13 cm
For many years, my parents took pictures of us children and of us as a family for my grandparents who lived in Iran. All photos shared a similar aesthetic and should convey a specific image of Vienna / abroad. The mediation of an idyll was in the foreground beyond the realities of everyday life.
These photos once again had a great value for my grandparents and were prominently positioned in the flat. In a mirror and on the living room ledge, they found a worthy place.
With picture me in diaspora I start my first self-portrait series. It a work on the issues of identity in a white majority society as well as the discrimination and unequal treatment of Women* of colour in the European diaspora. It is the thematisation of a (desired) image and the reality. A personal topic that I share with many people living in the diaspora at the same time.
I take self-portraits in the aesthetics of those diaspora photos as a continuation of the enactment in a certain way. I position them in my grandmother!٪s mirror, the only material memory left to me after her death. I wonder what my grandmother thought when she saw us and herself in the mirror.
mirror 50x60 cm
c-prints 9 x 13 cm
For many years, my parents took pictures of us children and of us as a family for my grandparents who lived in Iran. All photos shared a similar aesthetic and should convey a specific image of Vienna / abroad. The mediation of an idyll was in the foreground beyond the realities of everyday life.
These photos once again had a great value for my grandparents and were prominently positioned in the flat. In a mirror and on the living room ledge, they found a worthy place.
With picture me in diaspora I start my first self-portrait series. It a work on the issues of identity in a white majority society as well as the discrimination and unequal treatment of Women* of colour in the European diaspora. It is the thematisation of a (desired) image and the reality. A personal topic that I share with many people living in the diaspora at the same time.
I take self-portraits in the aesthetics of those diaspora photos as a continuation of the enactment in a certain way. I position them in my grandmother!٪s mirror, the only material memory left to me after her death. I wonder what my grandmother thought when she saw us and herself in the mirror.
