Hall of Reflections
Hall of Reflections is a multi-dimensional art project that chronicles the complex migrant experiences of the Iranian Diaspora in Northern California through site-specific and web-based installations. Drawing on Persian and Islamic designs and structures, Hall of Reflections creates a unique archive of personal photographs and narratives to explore themes of loss, preservation, displacement and belonging, specific to the historical experience of Iranian immigrants.
Hall of Reflections: San Francisco Arts Commission
September 10 – October 12, 2002
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery marked the first public exhibition of the materials collected for Hall of Reflections. The photographs and text, layered with mirrors and glass, covered the gallery walls in reflections of the past and glimpses into the personal history of the Iranians and Iranian-Americans living in Northern California. These remembrances, juxtaposed with the reflections of their audience, created a physical and conceptual connection between the personal
Hall Of Reflections: Poetics of Proximity
Chapman University’s Guggenheim Art Gallery; Orange, California
Installation variable digital prints,silk screens on glass and mirrors on wood with resins
Hall of Reflections: Somewhere/Elsewhere
University of California, Berkeley
2004
digital transparencies, silk-screen, glass, mirrors, resin, sand on wood panels of variable size Variable installation
Hall Of Reflections: California State University: Fullerton
Grand Central Art Center
“Hidden Wounds, Paper Bullets: Iranian Contemporary Art”
Hall Of Reflections: Recollection
Archives of an Iranian-American Journey
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 2nd floor Gallery, San Jose State University
Feb 28- March 28, 2012
Ruins
from the Landscapes of War series
Sharjah 6th international Biennial,
April 2003
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
EXHIBITIONS
2012 Recollections, San Jose Martin Luther King Jr Library
2009 California State Fullerton, Grand Central Station
2005 Represent at the Oliver Arts Center: California College of the Arts
2004, Somewhere Elsewhere, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2004 Poetics of Proximity at Chapman University’s Guggenheim Art Gallery
2002 San Francisco Arts Commission