Shirin Maleki, MFA EDA ’22: “30/900”
Shirin Maleki's thesis 30/900 is a video installation exploring concepts such as separation, language attrition, memory, reflections on the past and present. The videos read the fragmented experience of an immigrant going through temporary residencies in a forever-liminal otherness between departure and a promised arrival.
This is part of a series showcasing the work of the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts Class of 2022. Learn more about the program and its graduating cohort here.
30/900
By Shirin Maleki
Video installationOn View: March 28 – April 15 at the Rubenstein Arts Center (Gallery 235)
Artist Event: March 31, 6pm
30/900 is a video installation exploring a once familiar and now estranged everyday landscape of a life left behind. The videos read the fragmented experience of an immigrant going through temporary residencies in a forever-liminal otherness between departure and a promised arrival.
The textual and visual poetry of this space play with concepts such as separation, language attrition, memory, and reflections on the past and present. It also provides a deeper insight into immigration and displacement by highlighting the invisible and yet resistant negative space surrounding an individual navigating a new land.
