Prof. Setareh Shahbazi

Setareh Shahbazi compiles and transforms micronarratives through observations, conversations, collaborations, visual notes and found photographs. With a playful irreverence toward the sanctity of a photograph as a mirror of reality, she drains details from images found in public archives and private collections, snapshots, films, newspapers, social media, and daily newsfeeds. In trying to make sense of their broken narratives, their im-/possible translations into different contexts, temporalities, and languages, she constantly shifts perspectives to allow these observations to come together in a fictional afterlife.

Setareh Shahbazi studied Scenography and Media Art at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and spent the following years living and working between Beirut, Tehran, and Berlin, where she is currently based.