Through a process of cameraless photography made in his garage darkroom, the artist confronts reductive public perceptions about his identity, and a social climate informed by anti-immigrant policies. Tracing his encounters with found images, in the photographs, gestures of the artist’s own body and written inscriptions made with light, appear phantom-like on the page. A large handmade vase suspended from the ceiling nearby vocalizes anxieties of a collective subject through an audio track hidden within the vessel. Moving fluidly between languages including Farsi, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, and English, as well as a sounding sheep, the vase echoes pleas for help as visitors approach.
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