Essma Imady’s medium of choice is film. Film is a very visual experience, and she challenges this through using limited imagery or a layered surface that does not allow the vision to penetrate to its depth in order to present questions about the limits of vision, and to trouble the relation between vision and knowledge.

Her strategies include asserting the personal experience in the face of the collective, disassembling the essentialist narratives through the interrogation of the historical archive, and the constant suspicion of the transcendental claim for structure through questioning the system of referents that become associated with war and religion.

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Be sure to join us on Friday, May 13th at our new MFA Graduate Studios to enjoy Essma’s thesis work along with the other 2016 graduates.

MFA Thesis Exhibition and Reception

For more information: visit Essma Imady online