Amir Parsa’s photographic works use the registers and the parameters unique to the medium to allow for new fashionings of the world and of reality. From the single image to multi-image narratives and bookstills, from the tools and materials used to the modes of production, dissemination and exhibition, his engagements with the formal, structural and stylistic underpinnings of photographic practice dismantle categories and overcome conventional genres and projects. The overall oeuvre constitutes a theory in motion, a discourse in constant search of the possibilities of photography in relation to its own history and those of image-making and writing in general. Photography becomes a unique language, a system of scriptural intervention, a critique of and meditation on ways of seeing, ways of knowing, and the very poetics of leaving traces – of graphism – itself.
An acclaimed poet and writer, Amir Parsa is the author of 11 literary books in French, English and Persian. His work has been read and discussed in Europe and in the U.S. in various venues, from galleries to museums, from lecture halls to streets and rooftops. He was recently included in the anthology of French and Francophone poets published in France. An educational and cultural designer, Amir is also a Lecturer and Educator at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Met, where he has created and implemented programming for a wide range of audiences. Amir has a B.A. from Princeton and an M.A. and MPhil. from Columbia.
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