گالری افرند
Gita Meh
Born in 1963, Tehran, Iran. 29 years had passed since I last lived in Iran. During 29 years of migration, I was able to examine how identity is shaped by differences in language, gender,
ethnicity and culture, desire, exile, solitude and freedom, allowing me to re-create my own experience of cross-cultural spaces.
Finally, in 2011 I came back to Iran, luggage filled with files and memories of half of the globe. Before her death, my mother was helping me un-pack the geographies,
the languages, the many mountains, faces, cultures,
brushes, and rolls of canvases, eyebrows and tongues that constituted my artistic past practices. Together, we looked at images of so many different kinds of “clouds”
on my Apple laptop. I realized I was home.
The Surrealist Manifesto by the poet Andre Breton was proclaimed in Paris in 1924. His goal was to liberate thinking, language, and human being and experience from oppressive boundaries,
