Maliheh Zafarnezhad
About The Artist
Malihe Zafarnejad is a multi-media artist. Her practice reflects on her involvement with diaspora, displacement, cross-cultural experiences and most importantly her life experience as an Iranian-Irish woman who was raised in Iran. Maliheh uses her personal antiquated family photos alongside archival photos of historical illustrations to create multi-layered pieces of collages. The collage pieces decontextualize images by merging photos from different times and places on the top of each other, such poetic approach which results in making metaphors could be seen as a method to give birth to a third time and place. These works could be seen as romantic attempts to delicately touch and provoke finest human emotions and probably to outline the paradoxes and complexity of identity.