upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Sara Zia Ebrahimi (LTA '14, ACG '13, '09), aka DJ Cardigan, will be spinning music from Iran and the diaspora at the opening of Beeta Baghoolizadeh’s solo exhibition, Diaspora Letters, at Twelve Gates Arts (106 N. 2nd St.) on February 2, 5:30 PM.
Diaspora Letters is Beeta Baghoolizadeh’s first solo exhibition. Baghoolizadeh uses new media to illustrate her memories and the passage of time through black and white digital illustrations and gifs that invite viewers to visualize themselves in foreign-yet-familiar spaces.
As a historian of modern Iran, Baghoolizadeh’s work examines the past and the present, exploring banal environments that have been politicized in the current hostile political atmosphere. Her “letters” are purely visual, stripped of legibly written text to mimic the diasporic feeling of exclusion in different languages.
