An Underlying Perplexity

An underlying perplexity is a celebration of human beings’ inability to comprehend reality, a celebratory gesture for our confusion. Whether in this text or the two parts of my exhibition, I have humbly tried to position myself where I need to be. If I were to seek an affect within the pieces of my show, it would be nothing but showing empathy and care for those who are lost, marginalized, isolated, or sick.1 This show and this text are my way of communicating with the outside world, including layers of depression and social anxiety. Through wondering around human beings’ existential struggles, I have hoped to address social, political, inter/intrapersonal miscommunication, mental health issues, and the mechanisms of power and justice. While much of my research focuses on drawing attention to these problems in detail, my creative practice aims to demonstrate my significant care for and empathy towards those who have been suppressed by these notions, in hopes to ultimately create simple pathways for micro- solutions. That being said, this body of works also contain a certain level of the ugly truth, an honest and exposing gesture for those who are ignorant of reality, invoking inner conversations and a critical view of their beguiling experiences.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Studio Art

Grantor

University of Saskatchewan

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Porsandekhial, Narges

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Norlen, Alison

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Birke, Lisa
• Benning, Sheri
• Bath, Jon

• Installation
• drawing
• collage
• sculpture
• public art
• socially-engaged art
• conceptual art
• social practices
• text-based art
• poetry
• auto-theory
• memory
• home
• isolation
• conversation
• remembrance
• loss
• self
• anxiety
• mentality
• depression
• marginalized artist
• ordinary
• every-day life
• pattern
• repetition
• expressive
• art writing
• text as art
• confusion
• existence
• empathy
• story telling
• narrative
• mental illness
• mental health

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10388/14981

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:harvest.usask.ca:10388/14981