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SHEIDA SOLEIMANI HOTBED On View through December 23, 2020 SELECTED PRESS "Sheida Soleimani’s latest show comments on the complex political relationship between Iran and the US," by Marigold Warner in the British Journal of Photography "Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed @ Denny Dimin" by Loring Knoblauch in Collector Daily “Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed,” in S urface Magazine CATALOG AVAILABLE ONLINE Read the catalog with an essay by Jane Ursula Harris. Hotbed advances Sheida Soleimani’s inquiry into the crises that define Iran and the United States’ relations. Superimposing source imagery onto sculptural backdrops to illustrate the complex relationships between these hostile nations, Soleimani’s photographs are virtual palimpsests. Paradoxically, this paper-thin practice of layering foregrounds weighty ethical questions about how power operates, justice is served, and damage is done. These photographs reflect and critique and chop and screw hot button issues: demands for rep