Grandma’s Poetry

It might be not real // In Women and Nationality // And beautiful and sweet // Pain from redness, 2020

It might be not real // In Women and Nationality // And beautiful and sweet // Pain from redness, depicts a poem in the Persian language printed on a set of curtains, which are then visualized through a camera-based translation app that mediate’s the visual experience of the work—especially in the case of non-persian speakers, who will be exposed to completely new stories, disrupted metaphors, and divergent meaning from the original—to open questions both on the de/generative potential of translation and the ways digital media and automated translation mediate cross-cultural understanding.