BEHIND THE CLOUD: INTERROGATING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
BEHIND THE CLOUD: INTERROGATING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Bahareh Khoshooee
ARTWORKS
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#EverchangingFacade, 2020
360-degree video projection mapping upon foam structure, 5 x 5 x 5 ft.
Image credit: Courtesy of the artist
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#EverchangingFacade, 2020
360-degree video projection mapping upon foam structure, 5 x 5 x 5 ft.
Image credit: Courtesy of the artist
#EverchangingFacade, 2020
360 degree Video Projection Mapping Upon Foam Structure, 6 minutes 58 seconds
ARTIST STATEMENT WRITTEN BY Bahareh Khoshooee
#EverchangingFacade examines the influence of Western soft imperialism on Iranian culture, structures of power and aesthetic sensibilities. The audio and text piece use humor in combining texts of the Executive Order 13769 (Muslim Ban) with Fun Facts about the United States as a strategy to highlight the absurdity of this order and the inhumane political laws that were put in place during Trump’s presidency on 7 Muslim majority countries. Visual content from social media (specifically images pulled from Explore on Instagram which are sensitive to where one lives, who they follow, and what they "like") are digitally layered with my self-portraiture, animated, and project mapped upon the surface of the sculpture—through 4 projectors. The piece is a convoluted and ever-shifting digital skin of algorithmic content projected upon the static and tangible aggregate of familiar yet foreign forms.
Artist Bio
Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist born in Tehran, Iran in 1991, the year the Internet was made available for unrestricted commercial use. She uses digital time-based strategies in presenting work that fuses video, projection mapping, sculpture, text, sound and performance to explore the un-capturable qualities of her diasporic body, fragmented culture, and transnational identity. Khoshooee has presented her multimedia installations at Baxter St CCNY, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts (The Immigrant Artist Biennial), The Orlando Museum of Art, NADA MIAMI 2018, Elsewhere (New York), Housing (New York), and Rawson Projects (New York). She attended Skowhegan School of Art and Painting in 2018.
She has been included in various group exhibitions including at C24 Gallery (New York), Museum of Photography (Stockholm), 2018 Taiwan Annual (Taipei), Fajr International Film Festival 2018 (Tehran), and the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, The Guardian, Artnet News, Vice, The Metro, and The Creators Project.