alinah azadeh
As a British-Iranian woman, the core of my work is shaped by my cultural hybridity and the questions of home, belonging, and emotional meaning that spring from this. Installation, digital, and textiles are some of the media I use to develop artworks that aim to engage audiences in a process of self-reflection and intimate connection with each other. Cooking, weaving, and talking are some of the processes I use to poetically subvert the way we view the function of the everyday and create a relationship with an audience. Collaboration and "live" participation are central to my work, both with experts of other disciplines and the audience itself.
Since my MA in Media Arts Practice at Westminster University in 2001, I have created a number of commissioned works which use mass participation to create artwork based on emotional and spiritual experiences and relationships. The Loom Project and Mother to Mother are the two most recent examples of this.
My recent work has been inspired by becoming a mother in 2004, immediately followed by losing my own mother in the Asian Tsunami. I have been moved to look at the emotional legacies of motherhood, and this has opened up an inquiry into the nature of my relationship to death and beyond, which is just beginning.


