METANOIA

Metanoia explores my cultural identity as a new resident in the United States using Printmaking, hand-made paper, fabric, mixed-media collage, and video. This exhibition investigates my shifted identity from my hometown, Kurdistan, Iran to this new environment through searching for a new visual language. My artworks juxtapose different forms and concepts regarding my cultural identity in which a part of me is always missing like a fragment of an ancient object. I have many contradictory feelings about the new version of myself, trying to compensate for my insecurities by using transformed patterns just like my transformed identity. Misinterpretation, separation, lack of intimacy, and mistranslation in an unfamiliar world are inspiring sources in my works that lead to a distortion of my identity in a new language translation.