Anahita Razmi, White Wall Tehran | 2007 | 1min | DV | Germany
White Wall Tehran developed out of a trip that Razmi took to Iran in January 2007. She was stopped on the streets of Tehran by Iranian revolution guards for filming them with her video camera. They erased 27 seconds of her video by recording the white inner wall of their headquarters. The re-recording produces a stark white image that reveals very little evidence of their tampering. At the same time, however, the recording has captured subtle sound fragments: a radio transceiver, somebody stirring his coffee, and music playing, that reveal the images rewrite.
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Anahita Razmi (born 1981 in Hamburg, Germany) studied Media Arts at Bauhaus University in Weimar and the Pratt Institute in New York; and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.
She works with varying media and forms of expression, often using video and photography as tools for realizing conceptual strategies. Present political and social questions concerning the relationship of Iran and western culture are the main focus of her work.
Anahitas Razmi’s work was featured in numerous international festivals and exhibitions like: One Minute International Film & Video Festival (Aarau, Switzerland), Summer Reading Invisible Exports (NYC), Temporary Museum of Subjective Histories (Tehran/Berlin), 1979–2009 (Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin), Krautschneider (Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz), It Has Happened (TPTP Project Space, Paris), If love is an Ice-Cream (Flat 1, Vienna), Relocating Absence (Elevator Gallery, London).
In 2008 she won the second prize at Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge (Kunst, Germany). This year she received the Villa Minimo Stipend of the Kunstverein (Hannover, Germany) and a working grant of the Edith-Russ-Haus für (Medienkunst,Germany).
