Artist talk by Bita Razavi
How Populism Acts Upon Me, How I Document and Record It
Bita Razavi’s practice is centered around observations and reflections on a variety of everyday situations and is highly influenced by where she is based at the time. She examines the inner workings of social systems in relation to the political structures and national events of historic proportions in various countries. While socio-political observation is at the core of her practice, the dialectic between bringing what is personal to the public sphere, and the impossibility of total exposure because of law or social pressure, creates a secretive feel in some of her pieces. In her recent works she reacted to, and explored, the agency of the objects and the systems as they act upon her, and as she documents and records them.