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Farimah Eshraghi
Farimah Eshraghi is an Iranian visual artist currently living in Boston, US. Eshraghi works with photography and video to address the issues around gender, body, and culture. She uses history and found imagery to explore how social and political concepts affect personal experience.
She utilizes her upbringing as a woman in traditional Iranian society and an immigrant in the United States to delve into her subject matter. Her recent work chronicles the cultural and physical experience of immigrants and how immigration can affect one’s language and communication abilities.
For more information about the artist, please visit: farimaheshraghi.com
Artwork Featured:
Dance
Women
1. Dance
Part of Eshraghi’s Babel Series, Dance features an Iranian woman surrounded in texts with female representation. These documents have been distorted and rendered illegible, yet there remain hints of what they once were. Dance exposes language as an oppressive force.​
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2. Women
Women allows spectators to witness the erosion of language. Eshraghi investigates how the patriarchal system has shaped language as an oppressive force in the lives of women through folklore, fairy tales, literature, and spoken language. Distortion of reality is seen in the linguistic and visual forms of the work.
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