Art Exhbition
RYAN LEE
515 W 26th St floor 3 New York NY 10001
03/17/22-04/30/22
Mariam Ghani (b. 1978 New York NY) is an artist writer and filmmaker who examines spaces and moments where social political and cultural structures take on visible forms. Working across video sound installation photography performance text and dataworks Ghani plays on the relationship between a place and its history. With a research-based approach utilizing documentary archival materials narrative and database forms Ghani traces both individual narratives and the larger systems or structures that condition or enclose them.
Her work explores a wide range of topics including border zones no-man’s lands translations transitions and the slippages where cultures intersect; security cultures archives architectures of democracy and national imaginaries; places where nature and artifice imitate and influence each other; and the intersections of war trauma memory identity migration language and loss. “I grew up very much in between cultures ” Ghani explained “And that’s the position I work from as an artist.”
