November 15, 2020 - February 15, 2021
GOCA DOWNTOWN
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Female Emerging Artists Residency Series was co-founded and is co-curated by Corey Drieth, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, UCCS Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) and Dr. Katherine Guinness, VAPA’s Director of Art History. It features emerging professional artists of merit in residence at GOCA Downtown since 2019.
Residency period at UCCS:
November 15–22, 2020
Sara Z. Meghdari is an Iranian-American Interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Meghdari holds a MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a B.A in Communication from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
She has been twice awarded the Alice Beck-Odette Scholarship Award as well as the Thomas Reiss Memorial Award and is an alumna of the Engaging Artists Residency Program with the More-Art Organization. Meghdari has performed at Chinatown Soup Gallery (2019) and her work has been shown at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (2018), the 10th Annual Governors Island Art Fair (2017) and the Queens Museum of Art (2016), among others.
Video Screenings
Sara screened two of her videos at GOCA as part of this exhibition
in the U.S.
“in the U.S.” presents an assortment of clips, highlighting a form of softcore propaganda, found in well-known American movies and TV shows. This compilation is focused on instances where stereotypes and direct bias is initiated towards Iran/Persia. However, this approach of indoctrination is widely practiced and normalized in American media and Hollywood and is exclusively against the Black, Brown, Indigenous, and LGBTQ communities.
Screened at Ent Center for the Arts, GOCA Lobby
January 12th - February 15, 2021
(6:37 Runtime)
Silent Self
“Silent Self” plays on a loop and is shown on a 32” screen that is vertically installed onto a wall. In a single shot, while wearing the Hijab and directly facing the camera, the figure slowly and consciously transitions through a series of emotions in an attempt to counter the commonly negative rhetoric and representation of Muslim women in news and media in the United States.
Screening at GOCA Downtown
December 11, 2020 - January 8, 2021
(1:47 Runtime)
Selections of work from Sara Z. Meghdari
Still from My Body is Mine, Performance 7:51, 2019
Zaferan on My Tongue Archival Pigment Print 18.5” x 14.5” Framed 2019
Selection from زن • (Zan)
Selection from زن • (Zan)
Selection from زن • (Zan)