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Soha Asadi

video , spiritualiteit , performance , omgeving , Objecten , Media , Lichaam , internationaal , installatie , Gender , fotografie , Experimenteel , Digitaal , collage , Artistiek onderzoek , Archieven

I am a visual artist born in 1994 in Iran who living and studying in the Netherlands.
I received my first M.A. in photography from the Art University of Tehran in 2018 and
then I start to study my second master's in visual arts and post-contemporary practice in
Akv st Joost in the Netherlands. Through my work, I explore the connection between
socio-political rules and female identity and body in Iranian society. As a
multidisciplinary artist, I used my lived experiences alongside Persian metaphors and
folklores to translate this issue into a visual form by combining different mediums such
as performance art, video, photography, and installation.

ANATOMY OF MEMORIES - In this work, I combined specific body photos from different people and make a new body which is a mixture of various identities, genders, and nationalities. I collaged pieces of bodies that has certain signs such as a birthmark, scars, etc. on them. I decided to take a self-portrait and use my own body as a canvas to represent my idea and also as a base to bring other bodies and stories to make a new body, a body full of memories which has no gender, identity, age or nationality. In this work, I combined specific body photos from different people and make a new body which is a mixture of various identities, genders, and nationalities. I collaged pieces of bodies that has certain signs such as a birthmark, scars, etc. on them. I decided to take a self-portrait and use my own body as a canvas to represent my idea and also as a base to bring other bodies and stories to make a new body, a body full of memories which has no gender, identity, age or nationality.
ANDARUNI - Andaruni is a video/performance in which I explore the concept of female identity and its borders (inside & outside) in my background country, Iran. Because of the unevenness (especially in terms of gender rights), society has so many layers and complexities such as having dual characteristics in public and in private. The government is very strict about certain issues specifically the ones related to public spaces. Women are not allowed to reveal their hair in public but they can do as they want in their houses which makes their body political and has effects on their identities. My work is a reaction and reflection to the positon ofpositionin Iran and by doing a performance I went through a spiritual journey based on Persian metaphors and symbols towards thiregarding.
Cultural Identity - How do personal objects and heirlooms form links between cultural identity and physical existence?
20 YEARS BEFORE THIS DATE, I WAS A DEAD FISH - In the kindergarten they gave me a role as a dead fish in which I had to lie down on the stage for the whole time. Which I didn’t like it! Now, 20 years after that, I decided to change the story and transform to my desirable role as a cat. My plan is to substitute this memory with a new one.
Magical Field - Magical field is a video performance work that I made to show how I start to integrate my body with the new environment (Netherlands) after my migration and how I try to connect my inside identity and outside identity together in a public field. For me, this performance is like coming out of the safe zone and doing a spiritual and transformative activity. By this, I reach out to a self-exploration through the connection of my body and the field.
Memorabilia - In September 2019 I left my country to immigrate to a completely new place which was called Netherlands. I brought all of my memories and nostalgia from my past and family in my heart with me. I needed a surface as a metaphor of memory for myself to recall that memories. So I made this installation by allwithhe photographs and objects I brought from my background, at the end it looks like a shrine for past memories.

Andaruni

Datum:
Locatie: Netherlands
In samenwerking met: Akv s.t Joost Art Academy

Andaruni is a video/performance in which I explore the concept of female identity and its borders (inside & outside) in my background country, Iran. My work is a reaction and reflection to the positon of women in Iran and by doing a performance I went through a spiritual journey based on Persian metaphors and symbols towards this issue.

https://youtu.be/ti3GPirK1zY

Cultural Identity

Datum:
Locatie: Tehran

How do personal objects and heirlooms form links between
cultural identity and physical existence?

https://youtu.be/BhmBBRFqQKA
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