Exhibitions | The Concealed Exchange
Zoha Zokaei
6 - 31 March 2011
12 noon - 9pm
Riverside Gallery
My recent body of work explores the difficult but topical
subject of violence against women in more traditional societies and
communities. The work is not only trying to raise awareness of the
act of violence, but also explores the role that the social and
cultural plays in the violence. As a result the victims are
re-victimized or in some situations made out to be the
perpetrators.
Biography
Zoha was born in 1982 in Tehran-Iran. After finishing her BSc
degree in Textiles Engineering at Amir Kabir University of Tehran,
she moved to the UK in 2004. Later in 2007 she graduated from
Goldsmiths College, University of London with a MFA in Fine Art
Practice and she has been practicing as a visual artist ever since.
During the past few years she had the opportunity to take part in
exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Her practice as an artist has been greatly influenced by living
between Iran and the UK, resulting in her work expressing the
tensions and conflicts of living interstitially.
As a child of the Iranian Revolution she was taught to be a part
of the "sacred" gender of woman guarding their bodies from the
gazes of "immorality", which has resulted in a strong awareness of
the physical body.
As an artist living in the UK she is both
fascinated and perturbed by the scale of alienation experienced in
our everyday lives. Her work is an amalgamation of the "sacred"
body of her childhood, and the "lost" body of her adulthood.
She does not limit her practice to a specific medium, but rather
challenges her practice by exploring new media and various forms of
expression from installation, photography to video and sound
pieces.