Rest. 2010
Digital Photo Archival Paper

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dream. 2010
Digital Photo Archival Paper

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2 scrolls. 2010

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27898. 2009. 48″ x 48″
Ink and Paper with printed & hand written Text
Private Collection, Philadelphia USA

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White Head Scarf. 2010

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100. 2010. 30″ x 30″
Ink and Paper with printed & hand written Farsi Text
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Fur. 2009. 16″ x 20″
Digital Print on Paper
All images © HADIEH SHAFIE 1996-2010

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HADIEH SHAFIE was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States in 1983. Exploring the concepts of artistic process and repetition, her artwork is created using tightly coiled paperscrolls that have each been embedded in writing by the artist with the Farsi word for love, “eshghe”. Each strip is firstrolled to create a central core, to which additional strips are coiled around. The final artwork is made of multiple coilsthat are inserted into a single frame.

The time it takes to make each work can vary and the time spent in writing and rolling the strips of paper is an important part of the artistic process and a performative aspect of the making of this work. The title of each framed artwork documents the number of strips of paper that complete a single artwork.

The series of photographs documents her recent explorations of the relationship between text, the body and ornamentation. Providing the opportunity to construct self-orientalist images that provide a tool for a subversive attack on notions of otherness, exotics and beauty. Here scrolls of text are held by hands or inserted into the mouth or provide a backdrop for the figure in the foreground, inverting the relations of text to image.

More at http://hadiehshafie.com