AMIRALI BASHIRI
Linguistic Metamorphosis: Unveiling the Immigrant's Journey
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Each collage is a story, each word a chapter..
In this compelling project, the Amirali Bashiri delves into the interplay of language, identity, and adaptation.
Post-immigration, language serves as both material and medium, capturing the transformation journey.
Post-immigration, language serves as both material and medium, capturing the transformation journey.
Reimagine, recreate, redefine language.
These neologisms, coined from fragments of daily life and visual cues in the new environment, breathe life into mundane advertisements and signs.
Each collage narrates the artist's linguistic journey, forging new words that may not be found in dictionaries but resonate profoundly.
Each collage narrates the artist's linguistic journey, forging new words that may not be found in dictionaries but resonate profoundly.
Some words emerge from shared alphabets within a single source, while others incorporate varied materials. As unconventional as they may appear, these linguistic creations transcend definitions, carrying the Amirali's unique journey and experiences.
They invite us to reflect on the fluidity of language and the artist's remarkable narrative of linguistic transformation.
Left: Rauchen open. Right : Rauchen fold
In the world of words, we find new worlds..
“After immigration with living and learning a new language there are moments that I make new words/verbs with what I hear partially from environments or Visually while reading signs or advertisements in billboards or products in supermarket. I used everyday advertisements, signs and text that I encounter in my new everyday life. Simple collages with words that I made up. For some I use same alphabets in the same paper or same article for some others I use various materials from packaging or envelopes. The words even might not exist or have any meaning in dictionaries. { auchen – menheits } but for me makes sense and have meaning."
Amirali Bashiri (1984 Tehran-Iran) is a student of the Master Program Time-based Media at the University of Arts and Design Linz, Austria. Due to his Bachelor in Sculpture from Tehran University, Faculty of Fine Arts, He has gained professional experiences in Fine Arts (sculpture, drawing, print, video installations) and applied arts (set design for theatre, advertising agencies, and artistic direction).
Nowadays He investigates and follows his interest in fields of gender, queer, cultural, and territorial studies, He tries to increase his knowledge and widen his perspective on these subjects. His artistic pratices is mainly focused on experiencing duality in life and uncertainty and errors. He lives and works in Linz-Vienna Austria.