Shared View

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Shared View explores the liminal space between identities, borders, memories, and experiences of diasporic narratives in personal and cultural history. It embodies autobiographical inscriptions of crossing borders, Shared View as a topography of belonging, reimagining home as a site in continuous flux, and in which personal and cultural memory are interwoven by means of a poetics of assembly.

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Shared View encompasses three interrelated artworks:

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Performative Installation: The installation comprises a three-channel video projection, wooden sculptures, a wall drawing, objects, a rug, a photographic archive, mirrored sculptures, and sound. Commissioned by Artworx Toronto in 2022, curated by Claudia Arana as part of Terra Firma HOME(LAND) from Feb 16th to May 28th, 2022. ArtworxTO Hub WEST | Cloverdale Common Toronto. (link.) A collection of eight experimental film and moving image works, duration variable, total duration - 34 min, 42 sec. An interactive, audiovisual augmented reality (AR) environment.

 

This research creation project draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Contributors: Mahsa Alikhani, Cinzia Cavalieri, Maria Kravchenko, Nataf Messas, Jeruza.