I work in a range of media and am interested in nonlinear narratives that shift from generation to generation and can be read through fragments of architecture. The time-based sculptural configurations in my work represent a constant liminal state wherein cultural and social edges rub up against other edges, encounter other timelines, and bridge histories. Much of my work is concerned with questioning the material conditions of bodies and borders.
Installation/Site-Specific, Mixed Media, Photography, Sculpture, Video
shima.tajbakhsh@gmail.com
Hazy Borders
(2018)
Just as people are influenced by their histories and present societies, buildings also take cues from their surroundings, mimicking familiar architecture Though their walls confine them visually, pipes and ducts and wires travel in and out, making their immaterial borders hazy Like
To be Made of Many Bodies
(2019)
Installation is a decayed group shower with concrete-faced walls, that included shower-heads, fallen tiles, and traces of water. It creates a defunct circulation system with only the residues of dripping water left behind. Ideas of nature, the persistence of history, and the presence and absence of bodies haunted the space.
Fountain
(2020)
ongoing since 2020 as part of the project “The Absence of a Name”Video, Sound, concrete, water
