Setareh Shahbazi
Setareh Shahbazi compiles and transforms micro-narratives through conversations, collaborations, visual notes and found photographs: images from public archives and private collections, snapshots, film stills, newspapers, social media and daily newsfeeds. With a playful irreverence to the sanctity of a photograph as a mirror of reality, she drains details out of images. In trying to make sense of their broken narratives, their impossible translations into different contexts, temporalities and languages, she is constantly shifting perspectives to allow these observations to come together in a fictional afterlife. Setareh Shahbazi studied Scenography, Visual Art and Media Theory at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and spent the following years living and working between Beirut, Tehran, Cairo and Berlin, where she is currently based. Her work has been shown in solo shows at Tarahane Azad, Tehran; Gypsum Gallery, Cairo; 98weeks Project Space, Beirut; Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg; Montgomery, Berlin and at Karlsruher Kunstverein. She has participated in international group shows, including nbk, Berlin; Depo, Istanbul; 17 Essex, NY; Nottingham Comtemporary, UK; Sharjah Biennial 13; UAE; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Kunsthaus Wien; Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; Asar Gallery, Tehran; Program, Berlin; Kunstverein Frankfurt; Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut; HKW, Berlin; Fondation Cartier, Paris and Rooseum, Malmö.
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