How can we imagine healing from wounds that are ongoing, derived from historical injustices that continuously generate new losses, piercing the present with violences at once familiar and shocking? Put another way, what does one serve at a tea party with ghosts who manifest from the melancholic ..
Amitis Motevalli
Amitis Motevalli is an artist who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and/or war. Her experience as a trans-national migrant is foundational in her work. Through many mediums including sculpture, video, performance and collaborative public art, her work juxtaposes and contrasts iconography with iconoclasm, memorials with monuments, localized archive methodologies with canon. Her work intends to ask questions about violence and historical documentation and canonization, while invoking the significance of a secular grassroots struggle. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, exhibiting art internationally as well as organizing to create an active and critical cultural discourse through information exchange, either in art, pedagogy or organizing artists and educators.