In the video work the figure from the painting “M.M. die Iranerin” by Inge Wunderlich stands still in Leipzig Central Station, suspended between past and present. The video explores her gesture and the objects she carries with her, somewhere between documentary and fiction, between bureaucracy and desire, between imposed role and free will. On display […]
Assembled from archival footage from the 2024 Palestine protests in Berlin, this film-essay is centered on the police camera, and the protestors’ body; on the corporeal struggle to claim the streets and the exposure of those bodies to the police surveillance and violence. A composition of public space in which the historical origins of the […]
2025-26 A walk, a reading, a screening. Developed as part of Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method. A contribution in Walk Notations, 2026, Published by nGbK Walk Notations brings together traces emerging from Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method, a series of artistic walks across Berlin in 2025. Moving between artistic practices, curatorial […]
The video work traces the journey of a group of manuscripts contributed to the University of Leipzig’s Library by Wilhelm Eilers. Video, sound 4’30’’ and text
The work reconstructs the missing half of an Iranian nomadic carpet in the Ethnographic Collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). It interweaves this with the myth of Arachne and Athena, exploring the question: Who weaves which narrative and for what purpose?” Video and Sound 8’20’’https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/en/2025/08/19/too-much-past-is-a-dangerous-thing-4 Stannaki Forum. Kunst und Forschung im Gespräch Art and […]
Failed Calendars is an observation and reflection on workers’ relationships, workstations, and mass production of photoproducts. It is a experimental short film from the perspective an art student working in one of the leading mass photo laboratories in Germany. The film is made of residues of faulty photographs collected from the laboratory.
This video work is based on footage filmed by an anonymous protester, which went viral on social media on the evening of September 20, 2022. Through the use of montage and text, the video work explores the specific qualities of video as a medium of protest, focusing on the protest situation and its actors. Video […]
Amateur PET is a time-based sculpture inspired by the economic and political term of “Oil Curse”. The sculpture depicts the so-called oil curse as a seemingly living, but indefinable creature. Its breathing rhythm is a translation of OPEC oil prices from 1980 to the current year. The creature’s body is made of PET foil that […]
The excerpt of a mural on the wall of Boroujerdiha House depicts a faceless portrait of a woman surrounded by colorful floral motifs. Through a process, the characteristics of the printer and scanner—faulty sensors, shifting print-heads, noise, and compression—kept altering the motif and eroding its information until all that remained was an abstract pattern of […]
Living on the third floor of an apartment in Tehran, I spent hours observing the building that was the only thing I could see from my window. The curtains were usually closed, but every now and then, I would notice wet clothes hanging outside to dry. For about six months, I played the role of […]
