Fellows Exhibition: Zeinab Shahidi Marnani
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Opening: Friday, April 4, 5-8 PM
On View April 4-14, 2025
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani’s studio.
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A conscious practice of observation challenges the typical experience of a landscape as perceived by the eye.
While an image of the eye symbolizes the organ from an external perspective, referring to the internal experience of sight requires a distancing effect.
The contradiction of light revealing, and seeing occuring in the dark.
In many languages, there is a letter called eye. For an abstract letter to bear a name referring to something in the world would reverse the fundamental semantic order, unless that name exists beyond time.
In ancient languages, words often carry meaning beyond what they directly refer to. In Pahlavi, the word for time “Daman,” is the plural form of “Dam,” meaning breath.
Please note: The gallery is available to visit from Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. Please visit the administrative offices to be shown to the gallery.
About the Artist
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani is an interdisciplinary visual artist, and filmmaker based in Tehran and New York.
Her work explores themes such as time, vision including light and darkness, as well as language. Shahidi holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale School of Art and a Bachelor of Visual Communication from Tehran University.
