MOJDEH REZAEIPOUR

ARtist-in-residence / SPRING 2020

Mojdeh Rezaeipour is guided by nonlinear collaboration with past and future ancestors. Mojdeh creates altar installations and films that explore the sacred space, dualities of grief and joy, destruction, creation, trauma and healing. Mojdeh’s practice is largely process-led and moves boldly between media, resulting in a dynamic and ephemeral language of play, poetry and prayer that incorporates existing bodies of my 2D, sculptural and video work as a part of its immersive vocabulary. In the words of Mojdeh,

“I tell stories, I intuit, I question ways of knowing.  I engage in conversation with celestial bodies and built environments.  My work often incorporates movement, color, light and shadow, natural elements and my own body, as well as objects and relics that carry a story or a sense of place within them.  The autobiographical pieces also draw from photographs, early drawings, and toys from my childhood in Iran.  All of these elements are often deconstructed and reconstructed, reimagined and transformed, and shaped into site responsive interventions. Through this process, I invite others inside the walls of my own learning and into an embodied consideration of collective power and resilience.”

Learn more about Mojdeh’s work at www.mojdeh.art

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