Yasi Alipour
Yasi Alipour uses text and intricately folded pieces of paper to explore systems of math and history.
In her series “As Dreams Become History,” for example, Alipour asked Iranian friends born after the revolution to share second-hand memories of that decade shared by family and older friends. These texts she paired with sheets of paper printed with black ink and then folded into geometric tessellations referencing Middle Eastern abstraction. Her research-based practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, writing, lectures, and experimentation and probes personal history to parse issues around political instability and interrupted histories. Her artistic practice is founded on the lived experience of a Middle Eastern queer and a citizen with a politically unhinged society and an interrupted history.
New York, NY
Born 1989, Tehran, IR
2018 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
2015 BFA Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2011 BS Computer Science, University of Iran, Tehran, IR