TARANEH HEMAMI ::::

Taraneh Hemami’s bead curtain is part of a larger body of work, Most Wanted, which investigates the nature of perception, recognition, and representation; in particular, it examines Western constructions of the “new enemy” through a series of faceless portrayals of so-called most-wanted terrorists. The image on the curtain is the exact replica of a “most-wanted terrorist” poster found online, each bead representing a pixel of the 80k image.

Hemami is an artist and curator who recently had residencies at the Lab in San Francisco and at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. She is included in two exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco: The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art, and Politics; and Bay Area Now 5. In 2007 she had a solo show at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. www.taranehhemami.info