Arefeh Riahi (1979)
- Member of
- To See the Inability to See
Description
Arefeh Riahi (b. 1979, Tehran) is a visual artist and researcher currently based in The Hague. Her performances, videos, installations, drawings, texts and paintings take up questions of archiving and anarchiving, undecidability, body and space potentialities, relation to power, censorship, translatability, and the multiplicity of interpretation. Her work has been exhibited at the Silk Road Gallery (Tehran, Iran), Cinema Museum (Tehran, Iran), Gallery Isabelle Van den Eynde (Dubai, UAE), Sesc Vila Mariana (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the 13th Delhi Photo Festival (India), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), 1646 Project Space (The Hague, NL), Gemak (The Hague, NL), The Peace Palace (The Hague, NL) Gallery Nouvelle Images (The Hague, NL) and REDCAT; Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (Los Angles, CA). She is a graduate of the Azad University, Tehran, and Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag. Un/folding Interventions is generously supported by AFK Amsterdam and Stroom, Den Haag.
My Garden’s Boundaries Are the Horizon – Exhibition booklet, archive
Untitled, 2022
interrāre, al-dafn: Scattering and the counter Archive, collection (unintended)
this note was given to me during the women’s uprising in Tehran. A stranger woman gave it to me in the street. The written text on it says ”with your hair and courage, the world is a better place to live in”. It was a secret way of resistance, acknowledgement between women who were resisting and refusing to wear vail.
material: paper, felt
Object on longterm loan in external archive facility de Appel 2025003
Address: Al Makhrour
Country: Palestine
Coordinates: 31°42'49.5"N 35°10'13.9"E