Visual Arts |

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Shiva Khaef Panah

See it On Campus: Level 2

Near Micheal O'Brian, across Rennie hall - Right wall

Award Recipient

ECU Graduation Awards for Anti-Racism and Social Justice – Visual Arts – Honourable Mention
Vancouver Art Attack Award

All artworks shown in images have been created and currently situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

I’d like to thank John Wertschek, Karen Kazmer, Valerie Walker, Elizabeth Mcintosh, Rachelle Sawatsky, Patrik Andersson, Fiona Bowie, Gonzalo Reyez Rodriguez, Emily Hermant, Maggee Day, Julie York, Brendan Tang, Gloria Han, Jamie Hilder, Chris Hewart, Mollie Burke, Shoora Majedian, Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli, Chris Jones, Parvin Peivandi, Nick Conbere, Christine Howard-Sandoval, Bobak Etminani, Sharon, Yang, Trudy, Leon, Aja, Jacqueline, and the names of all my cohort, peers, and many many more individuals, for contributing to a dynamic structure and creating opportunities to encounter the truthful possibility of partaking the role, life, and responsibility of an artist. A student.

Thank you for guiding and mentoring us through your pedagogy, and for engaging with our work so generously.

Special thanks to بابا Reza, مامان Zhaleh, Rasool, Parsa, خاله Laleh, خاله Ladan, خاله Sholeh, A.A, and many more family and friends from near and far.

Moving around a lot is unsettling.

Living in an in-between space of everywhere, grounds you once stood on.

An archive of details, of people you recollect features, matching parts of their voices.

You frequently irrigate the depths of your memories.

A ritual of preservation.

A resistance against destruction.