And The winner is:
Since We Last Spoke [by Sophie Sabet] is an autobiographical three-channel video installation that explores the intricacies and tribulations of a modern Iranian-Canadian home. Sabet invites the viewer to witness the impact of the migration experience through an intimate portrait of her own family. Employing personal video footage and recorded conversations between family members, the installation reveals a family coping with interpersonal and cultural frictions caused by displacement.And another reviewer writes: chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.aceart.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/noor-sabet-response.pdf
Bio:
Sophie Sabet is an emerging media artist working predominantly in video. As an Iranian-born woman raised in Canada, her work focuses on exploring identity and the influences of the diasporic experience within the domestic sphere. She holds a BA in Art History from Queens University.
The setting(her parent’s bedroom) heightens the intimacy of the memories. By asking them to revisit the letters, she has found a way to insert herself into and also witness the stories that lay underneath the skin of the everydays that took place behind closed doors.The artcle s wrtten by another Mississauga diasporic: Nahed Mansour. She exhibited at the Art Gallery of Mississauga's VAM’s 38th annual juried show in 2016 with an installation titled Satellite Telefizyoon:
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As Sophie attempts to revisit the everyday of her parent’s past she hollows out her own place within the diasporic drama. Always the documenter, she restricts her position to that of listening and recording, far away from any meaningful participation in the dialogue. For me, as her audience and fellow diasporic body, it is this hollowness that is the centre and strength of this project. In pointing to the holes within the domestic sound envelope, Sophie reminds us of the limits of empathetic witnessing.
For some of us the envelope of our parents’ culture is often not enough to cover us and give us new life. While it is important work to bear witness to the histories of our parents, in turn we must learn to respond with and fill up our own agency. So for the moment, let us hold on to the “cross-cultural”in hopes that it can prompt us to cut across.
Nahed Mansour’s challenging and thought-provoking video installation Satellite Telefizyoon received the AGM Curator’s Award.https://www.mississauga.com/whatson-story/6243447-exhibition-at-agm-rare-opportunity-for-regional-artists/
Nahed Mansour, her AGM Curator's Award for with her video installation 'Satellite Telefizyoon',
at the opening reception of the Visual Arts Mississauga Annual Juried Show
at the Art Gallery of Mississauga on January 14 2016.
It is fascinating. All of the online sources on Sabet's Since We Last Spoke are password protected or exclusive. Of course this means that she discloses personal, and even harmful or embarrassing, material regarding her family. For the sake of ART, all is permissible. Actually this s a whoring off of one's family and personal stories. Sabet most certainly gets all kinds of governmental artists'' grant money to execute her immigrant/ non-white "art." She has to make a living out of all of this.
Traditionally, all material is public at some point. That means to the GENERAL PUBLIC, not some exclusive gallery voyeurs. And Sabet needs this crawling team to view her work. She is ready to show the all now for her grants next year. The big names come to see such exhibitions including media.....
And no-one esle goes to galleres or museums any more. At least those that matter. Iranians (other than loyal family members who know that her daily bread (and theirs?) depends on such exhibitionism.