Artist Talk: Farideh Sakhaeifar & Regine Basha
Tue, Apr 13
|Webinar
Artist talk with Farideh Sakhaeifar and Regine Basha, as part of the exhibition You are in the war zone.


Time & Location
Apr 13, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Webinar
About the Event
In conjunction with the exhibition Farideh Sakhaeifar: You are in the war zone. curated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber, the artist will be in conversation with curator, educator, and content producer Regine Basha.
Farideh Sakhaeifar was born and raised in Teheran, Iran. She is a multidisciplinary artist, educator based in New York City. Sakhaeifar’s work investigates the politics of conflict, collective history, and personal accounts. She employs a range of media to critique US foreign policy and the Western narrative of the war in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region. Her creative practice includes sculpture, video, installation, collage, and collaboration with HEKLER since 2018, an artist-run collaborative platform fostering the critical examination of hospitality and conflict. She received her MFA from Cornell University (2011) and her BFA from Azad Art and Architecture University in Iran (2008). Sakhaeifar has awarded the Shed first Open Call (2019) and has been an…