DENNY GALLERY NEW YORK PRESENTS SHEIDA SOLEIMANI BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Sheida Soleimani Birds of Passage NEW YORK September 5 to October 7, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday, September 8th, 6-8 pm Denny Gallery is pleased to present Sheida Soleimani’s Birds of Passage . In the newest installation of her series Ghostwriter , Soleimani “ghostwrites” her parents’ lives: as pro-democratic dissidents targeted by the totalitarian regime in Iran after ’79; and as stateless refugees forced to seek asylum across Europe and in pre- and post-9/11 America. In these photographic assemblages, Soleimani creates palimpsests of memories as a way to reckon with the narratives that she herself has constructed throughout her life from her parents’ stories, drawings, notes, and artifacts of the seismic events that continue to shape their lives. Portrait of Sheida Soleimani by Mel Taing for Boston Art Review, 2022. Sheida Soleimani was born in 1990 in Indianapolis, IN and lives in Providence, RI. She received an MFA from Cran