3 Works: Raheleh Filsoofi on Place
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3 Works: Raheleh Filsoofi on Place
July 8, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
In this live online event, Chief Curator and Deputy Director Sequoia Miller will be joined by artist, feminist curator, and community service advocate Raheleh Filsoofi. Her work synthesizes socio-political statements as a point of departure and further challenges these fundamental arguments by incorporating ancient and contemporary media such as ceramics, poetry, ambient sound, and video.
About the Artist
Raheleh Filsoofi holds an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a B.F.A. in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran. Her interdisciplinary practices act as interplay between the literal and figurative contexts of land, ownership, immigration, and border. Her work has been shown individually and collaboratively both in Iran and the United States, including the recent interactive multimedia solo exhibitions Inh(a/i)bited, an interactive multimedia installation in Spinello Project Gallery in Miami (2020), and The Overview Effect, an interactive Multimedia Installation in Betty Foy Sanders Gallery at Georgia Southern University (2019).
Imagined Boundaries, a multimedia digital installation on border issues, consisting of two separate exhibitions, debuted concurrently in a solo exhibition at the Abad Art Gallery in Tehran and group exhibition (Dual Frequency) at The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida in 2017. The installations in each country connected audiences in the U.S. and Iran for few hours in the nights of the show openings. The multifaceted curatorial project Fold: Art, Metaphor and Practice, which engaged over 20 artists, scholars, and educators in exhibitions, performances, and lectures over a period of one year in Edinburg and McAllen, Texas, has been a milestone in Filsoofi’s professional career.
She has been the recipient of grants and awards, including the Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship and South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University.
