Screen shot From ‘Manjil winds’ film, 2022, 24’ 10”
"Manjil Winds" is a film that explores the traces of patriarchy in Iran through the story of Afshan, a woman who loses custody of her children after her husband divorces her. The film interweaves Afshan's story with the development of the Manji Dam, using both storylines to highlight the challenges and struggles faced by women in a society with strict gender roles and expectations. The film touches on themes of family, loss, and the struggle for independence, and highlights the ways in which the patriarchal structure of Iranian society impacts the lives and experiences of women.
By juxtaposing Afshan's story with the larger societal issues at play, the film offers a nuanced and thought-provoking exploration of patriarchy and its effects on women in this particular cultural and historical context.
‘INFRASTRUCTURE IS?’
London, St. James Church Goldsmith,
March 2022
‘INFRASTRUCTURE IS?’
‘A Receipt for Salary’ is an installation that explores the process of calculation of salary, to see how its infratructure reprouces gender and social inequality. Focusing on the gender pay gap, by deconstructing the factors that create the remuneration, how skill is measured and what are the parameters that generate the remuneration and payment.
Using the equal pay act and the court case between Asda shop workers and distributors, I have tried to visualize the salary infrastructure and its old, patriarchal biases.
Untouched / 2016
This project has been performed with a rolling scanner, in order to recreate the similar sense of touch. Applying the scanner on one surface for documenting reminds me of this intimate, undesired and sometimes shocking contacts with unknown and random persons.
Setting the pieces of my skin scans against the car seat background texture, hovers between aggression and anxiety on the one hand and a sense of repression and complicity on the other hand. I chose car seat textures as background of the image as it is the representation of taxi and public transport as a main location for these encounters and also the pattern implies the sense of strain.