Resort, video installation, still, 2016, courtesy of Pari Nadimi Gallery

Join the recipient of Griffin Art Projects’ North Shore Studio Art Residency Award, Matilda Aslizadeh, to learn about her practice and what she has been up to during her time at Griffin.

Matilda Aslizadeh’s media installations and photo-based works are characterized by dense visual surfaces and unexpected juxtapositions drawn from a range of photographic, cinematic, and painterly influences. Deeply invested in exploring the critical potential of immersive spectacle, the ambivalent centrality of storytelling in human existence, and the fluid threshold between documentation and fictionalization, Aslizadeh produces work that locates political thinking firmly within affective experience.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and festivals, including exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery, AC Institute (New York), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto.