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ARTA SHADMAN
PROJECTS
My research and artistic practice explore the shifting terrain of masculinity and gender through the lenses of displacement, memory, and cultural transformation. I am drawn to how experiences of uprootedness — geographic, emotional, or spiritual — unsettle fixed identities and create openings for reimagining the self. Working with spaces of fragility, opacity, and transformation, my practice seeks to unearth the rituals, structures, and narratives through which identity is performed and undone.
Masculinity, in my work, is not a static category but a living inquiry. I examine how personal history, collective narratives, and embodied experiences intersect to create, question, or undo gendered expectations. Through this process, I engage with broader themes of belonging, loss, migration, and the tension between tradition and change.
Each project becomes a site of excavation—where identity is not merely represented but actively deconstructed, reassembled, or left in flux. By blending research, storytelling, and experimental media, I invite audiences to step into spaces where gender is porous, presence is layered, and meaning is always becoming.
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