KINDRED STITCHES

“Kindred Stitches” is a multi-channel video installation, in which I address the notions of parenting, gardening, absence, longing, and aging through a multi-layered narrative.

Three-channel video installation, stereo sound, on loop, cacti, plaster, custom-designed wallpaper

Dimensions: 144” x 96” x 12”

Right monitor: a recorded conversation with my parents about my sick cactus. In Farsi with subtitles, on loop.

Duration: 00:05:58

Top left monitor: my father’s hands using the patient’s rib cartilage to reconstruct an ear using sculpting techniques. with sound, on loop.

Duration: 00:06:26

Bottom left monitor: documentation of mending process of a broken cast of my mother’s back in my studio, with sound, on loop.

Duration: 00:06:15