She Who Sees The Unknown: The Laughing Snake
2019
Morehshin Allahyari
Brooklyn, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Morehshin Allahyari
Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, writer, and educator. She was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Morehshin has been included in numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world, at venues including the Venice Biennale di Architettura, New Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Pompidou Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Pori Museum, and Dallas Museum of Art, among others. She is the recipient of the Leading Global Thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Her 3D Additivist Manifesto video is in the collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2019
Website / Social Links
I use digital tools to question and re-figure (im)practical methodologies for living in this most contradictory of times, focusing on topics such as archiving, digital colonialism, fabulation, and monstrosity.”
