Morehshin Allahyari

Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and curator whose work addresses the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face daily. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects, as well as a poetic means to document our current personal and collective struggles. Her 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, Material Speculation: ISIS, and her current project, She Who Sees The Unknown, have been exhibited internationally and received widespread attention.

 

 

 

Artist, Activist, Educator, and Curator