Sholeh Asgary

Sholeh Asgary (she/her) is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who creates immersive works, sound performances, audience participatory scores, and workshops with a particular interest in liminal spaces experienced by the viewer. Utilizing the parameters of various media, such as photography, video, light, time, and sound, she resurfaces the viewer/participant’s relationship to space, in order to address the way objects can create disambiguation and break down representation. Relating to her early somatic experiences in movement across borders, her practice takes on an alchemical process of distilling symbolic representations into messengers of liminal spaces. For example, she has made large obsolete televisions chant while facing each other, creating a polysymphonic rhythm that envelopes the viewer–yet never allows them to fully enter, or carpets rumble with sounds of water, affected by the viewer’s static energy in an intimate aural/textural environment.