“I was born in the summer of 1981 in Tehran, Iran. 1981 is two years after the Islamic revolution of Iran. 1981 is a year after the beginning of eight years of war between Iran and Iraq. 1981 is seven years before the mass execution of Iranian political prisoners. I was born in 1981 in Tehran, Iran, as a woman-to-be, and I left the country when I was 25. After immigrating to Canada, my factual perceptions from my home country narrowed to the memories I have and the news I receive on an everyday basis. I remember the days growing up in Iran, but I feel I am not Iranian anymore. I remember the day I became Canadian, but I feel I am not Canadian yet. They call me Iranian-Canadian. I consider myself neither Iranian nor Canadian. I feel no sense of strong association with either culture, yet I find an affinity with both. I am inside and outside, stateless yet relating to both. I live in Canada, but I move around with my memories from Iran. To connect myself to either culture, or both, I struggle to understand what is going on in Iran and, simultaneously, to fit myself into Canadian society. I don’t ground myself in a spirit of identity arising from one culture or the other, or even from both. I go beyond, exploring how I might use their influence on me to return to a more authentic self through selection and rejection, revision and reconstruction. My initial investigation into the relationship between memory, space, and displacement arose from my constant awareness of a link between the real space I experience in a particular time and a comparable space I used to experience in the past. My current practice's primary focus is to recognize space, displacement, and memory, in diverse aspects of human identity and social relations.”