“An Injury On the Diasporic Imagination foregrounds the transactional nature of citizenship and movement, the politics of diasporic belonging, and the fractured ways in which images and memories of landscapes, people, and moments of societal rupture are formed and proliferated in a world shaped by the domineering presence of surveillance and digital culture.”

Olumoroti George
Director/Curator of Gallery Gachet

For An Injury on the Diasporic Imagination, the video work Entropic Fields of Displacement was revisited as a personal inquiry into modes of public intervention, the affective charge of images as they shift from motion to stillness, and the possibility of mapping a journey through the layered experience of being a diasporic woman, resisting fixed narratives and asserting the presence of the female body in public space as a form of resistance.

The stills probe the space between performer, passerby, and environment, revealing how architecture, social codes, and invisible power lines, woven into urban infrastructure, park paths, or the atmosphere of abandoned grounds, shape movement. Each image opens a portal into the experience of navigating such spaces. Through aesthetic techniques rooted in digital and surveillance media, the dual function of surveillance imagery is explored as both a tool of oppression and a means of bearing witness, documenting place, and reasserting one’s humanity.

Photo Installation by Pegah Tabassinejad

Curated by Olumoroti Soji-George

Performers: Zhino Arjomandi, Ilkay Bilgic, Lisette Chehade, Zainab Entezar, Sholeh Jalili Khiabani, Zeynep Neslihan Arol, Shahrbanou Rezaei, Ghinwa Yassine

Videographers: Sayed Mubarak Shah Alavi, Sara Fereshteh Saniee, Amirali Ghasemi, Chada Halawani, Mehmet Payaslıoğlu, Baset Rezaei, Pegah Tabassinejad

Colourist: Hootan Haghshenas

Post Production Company: AZ Studio

Two Person Exhibition at Gallery Gachet, May-June 2025

Generously Supported by Gallery Gachet and the Canada Council for the Arts