Artist Statement, video installation, 2011.

Artist Statement is a video installation consisted of three video loops of the same video footage, each installed in a different room. In the back ground artist reads her artist statement in Farsi. Each video has a voice-over: a translation of the speech. Artist Statement intends to draw attention to the differences among languages/cultures and the lost meanings or components in translations in the contemporary globalized situation.

Artist Statement puts distances in-between presented videos and makes the viewers travel room to room, in search of a message. Searching gets harder due to the lingual barriers. Moreover, translations are done on Google translate, and synched with the video footages as voice-overs. The viewers will find themselves watching a press conference in a foreign language. Wondering about the subject of the talk, they enter the last room, English version, just to find out the message they have been waiting to hear is been distorted through translation.