Sepideh Rahaa (1981, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Helsinki. Through her practice she questions social norms and conventions while focusing on womanhood and resistance, migration, body and representation. Rahaa aims to initiate methods within contemporary art to bridge from individual perception to the social perception by creating spaces for dialogue. Body and its performative presence through time and space are significant elements of her works where she combines memory, sense of belonging and personal narrations of everyday life together.
Currently she pursues her doctoral studies in Contemporary Art at Aalto University investigating concept of identity and its transformation and hybridity with a critical and analytic view on representation and image production. Rahaa's aim is to challenge the existing stereotypical perceptions of gender and cultural roles for women by investigation, action and reflection while resisting against the accepted norms and conventions associated with women in general and in detail women who have Middle Eastern roots. By privileging their perspectives over the other ones and avoiding them from being treated within the artistic practices or research as only a sidetrack.
Rahaa's work is combination of different disciplines such as painting, photography, performing art, film and video installation. She holds a BA in painting and visual arts, MA in art and research from Shahed University in Tehran and a second MA in Fine Arts and contemporary art at Aalto University. Her works including her videos have been exhibited and screened in Europe, Asia and West Asia (so-called Middle East); such as Iran, Taiwan, UK, Spain, France, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Germany (Berlin) and Finland.
Currently she pursues her doctoral studies in Contemporary Art at Aalto University investigating concept of identity and its transformation and hybridity with a critical and analytic view on representation and image production. Rahaa's aim is to challenge the existing stereotypical perceptions of gender and cultural roles for women by investigation, action and reflection while resisting against the accepted norms and conventions associated with women in general and in detail women who have Middle Eastern roots. By privileging their perspectives over the other ones and avoiding them from being treated within the artistic practices or research as only a sidetrack.
Rahaa's work is combination of different disciplines such as painting, photography, performing art, film and video installation. She holds a BA in painting and visual arts, MA in art and research from Shahed University in Tehran and a second MA in Fine Arts and contemporary art at Aalto University. Her works including her videos have been exhibited and screened in Europe, Asia and West Asia (so-called Middle East); such as Iran, Taiwan, UK, Spain, France, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Germany (Berlin) and Finland.
Entangled- ME & HAIR from Sepideh Rahaa on Vimeo.
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