Artist Statement/ Biography

Imani’s work incorporates video installation, sculpture, and performance, through which she explores the reparative potentials of art and science, intimacy and distance, instructions and poetics. In her installations, she creates intimacy in a prescribed or clinical environment by drawing parallels between the human body and botany. These themes manifest themselves in different ways such as the reconstruction of a dismembered ear, fixing a broken cactus with surgical techniques, or trying to mend a broken mold of her mother’s back. In her practice, she borrows from medical methodologies such as life-casting with plaster, in addition to incorporating clinical technologies such as otoscope to make videos, that study the relation between virtual and visceral.

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Sareh Imani is an Iranian-born artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Imani received an MFA in Painting from the University of Tehran and an MFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York. She has exhibited her work in group shows in the United States, Italy, Sweden, Dubai, and Iran. Currently, she is doing the artist fellowship at A.I.R Gallery in New York with an upcoming solo exhibition in May 2020. Past residencies and fellowships include the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Artist in the Marketplace, MASS MoCA Residency, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship.