2nd Reception - Sadaf Sadri, De/Angular

Sadaf Sadri makes work that explores worldbuilding and prompts reflection on gender, ideology, power, and relationality using digital technologies. Sadri is currently a Ph.D. student at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media at the University of Washington. They are the founder and co-curator of the SPAM New Media Festival, a platform for experimental practices in art and technology in Seattle, where they now reside.

“We were all sitting with Grandma in the afternoon. Maybe it was a Tuesday or a Wednesday. It had that long, stretched quality of a sunny Wednesday around 4PM. She was talking about a man I remembered from when I was four, the one who used to come to her old house every day at the same hour to sing her Quran verses. The house they demolished after my grandfather passed away, with its small concrete pool in the middle, and the restroom that terrified me, full of huge cockroaches that would fly right at your face. Every time he sang, she would cry hard and loud. Kind of like therapy.”