DocNow Festival Presents

SINCE WE LAST SPOKE Sophie Sabet

OPENING, JUNE 8 68 PM

STUDENT GALLERY, RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE, 33 GOULD ST, TORONTO

Nots: Exhibition open June 8July 10, 2016

About Work:

Since We Last Spoke is an autobiographical three-channel video installation that explores the intricacies and tribulations of a modern Iranian-Canadian home. Sabet invites the viewer to witness the impact of the migration experience through an intimate portrait of her own family. Employing personal video footage and recorded conversations between family members, the installation reveals a family coping with interpersonal and cultural frictions caused by displacement.

Bio:

Sophie Sabet is an emerging media artist working predominantly in video. As an Iranian-born woman raised in Canada, her work focuses on exploring identity and the influences of the diasporic experience within the domestic sphere. She holds a BA in Art History from Queens University.