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Artist Statement:
Phosphorescent, color soaked paintings and drawings are a placeholder for communicating ideas on what it means to be first generation American. The work comes from an inability to define the artist in terms of personhood, as Iranian Polish American. Through science fiction and mythology, works are created that acknowledge and process being a child of diaspora in America.
Thoughts on “Women’s Work” - the emotional labor silently demanded across social, political and economic embodiments of life are woven together with the experiences of being a child of immigrants. The quiet cultural balancing acts that go unnoticed in a predominately white homogeneous landscape. The kid in the cafeteria with the "weird lunch", the child of diaspora.
There is little space in this ecosystem for Middle Eastern communities, especially women. My work is offered as a meeting ground for those isolated.
In recent months this meeting place has turned into a rallying cry in support of the Feminist Revolution happening in Iran. Fighting for basic human rights; freedom of choice, freedom to dance in public, freedom to feel the wind in your hair, the freedom to be. Countless people have lost their lives. Kidnapped, tortured, wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death without trial if not already killed. A regime suffocating and silencing some of the world's most talented minds. To bring awareness and solidarity to those stolen, and killed by the Islamic Republic haunting Iran. To show gratitude and give power to the women of Iran leading a revolution that is burning white hot like the sun. A kind of strength and determination that is rare to see. A strength that is hoped will spread to all who take a moment to learn about the movement; for bodily sovereignty and human liberty.
ZAN ZANDEGHI AZADI
WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM
Bio:
Frankie Krupa Vahdani (b. 1990, she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Skagit Valley. Krupa Vahdani graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in Studio Art. Krupa Vahdani has been a resident at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA and has exhibited work at Public Pool Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, The Vestibule in Seattle, WA, Fuller Rosen Gallery in Portland, OR and Schack Art Center in Everett, WA.