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Zeinab Shahidi Marnani | histories

Date:
September 17, 2016 - December 12, 2016
Time:
12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Venue:
The Watermill Center

Exhibition open by appointment only.

histories is an experimental documentary project in which Zeinab Shahidi Marnani conducts a series of interviews about the controversial origin of her last name.

“An environment has been constructed by the artist in which an audience experiences how an individuals memory subjectively creates and passes on the narratives of politics, faith, death, familial relations and the source and meaning of ones own name – in this case the name of the artist.” – Noah Khoshbin

histories was curated by Noah Khoshbin and Daneyal Mahmood.

Click here to view images from the opening of histories by Zeinab Shahidi Marnani.

Zeinab Shahidi Marnani

In Residence:
September 6, 2016 - September 26, 2016
Discipline:
Video, Film
Country:
Iran
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani (b. 1983 in Isfahan, Iran) lives and works in Tehran and New York. She holds a MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art. In 2015, she was an artist-in-residence at The International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York. She is also a recipient of the... histories is an experimental video documentary project by Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, in which she conducts a series of interviews with her relatives. She collects contrary narratives of those who claim to know the story about the origin of her last name “Martyr of Marnan”, which refers to an incident that... Read More

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