Exileware

Katayoun Amjadi

From cultural displacement to dinnerware placement, Exileware: Persian Diaspora & Pottery in Minnesota focuses on the impact of transnational migration on individual and collective experiences of everyday life. Exileware is a body of ceramic ware exploring the dynamics of a hybrid cultural identity that revolves around social rituals and traditions surrounding ceremonial events, food, and hence ceramics vessels.

Exileware, 2015

Haute Tea, 2014

BlameParty, 2012

Statement

I work primarily as an installation artist. In my work, I seek to draw on multiple cultural histories in ways that explore ideological limitations, and investigate broader global concerns including identity formation, diaspora, nationalism, history, memory, borders, safety, the comfort and unpredictability of home and world, and the poetics of creative expression; synthetic, hybrid, and vital.

As artist and maker I believe in the latent power of objects to speak. They are embedded with the history of their origin, making and culture. They can carry multiple associations yet also personal and collective meanings as signifiers of a place, time or memory. They are fundamental to my research, indeed they are the structural syllables of the language of my practice.

Katayoun Amjadi

Exileware

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