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Modern Mondays: An Evening with Raha Raissnia

Tehran-born, Brooklyn-based artist Raha Raissnia presents an evening of her expanded cinema work. Raissnia works in film, painting, and drawing, with each medium informing the other. Her film works are the result of an iterative approach: footage shot on Super-8, 16mm, digital, and even mobile phone is manipulated in the studio; Raissnia projects the footage onto paintings and screens, integrating found materials and additional film and digital imagery, and refilms the whole to yield densely layered celluloid films. These films, in turn, are often screened superimposed with handmade slides or fashioned into film loops that Raissnia manually manipulates on projectors, which take on the role of instruments. One recent body of work, derived from video recordings of East Harlem street scenes, oscillates between keenly observed portraits, by turn stoic and vibrant, and the sublime nature abstracted images achieve through texture and rhythm. Raissnia will present one of these recent pieces, Litany—with live sound by collaborator Panagiotis Mavridis’s handmade instruments—along with other works that have yet to be shown together in a single program. A discussion with the artist follows.











When: Mon., Mar. 7, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd St.
212-708-9400
Price: $12
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Tehran-born, Brooklyn-based artist Raha Raissnia presents an evening of her expanded cinema work. Raissnia works in film, painting, and drawing, with each medium informing the other. Her film works are the result of an iterative approach: footage shot on Super-8, 16mm, digital, and even mobile phone is manipulated in the studio; Raissnia projects the footage onto paintings and screens, integrating found materials and additional film and digital imagery, and refilms the whole to yield densely layered celluloid films. These films, in turn, are often screened superimposed with handmade slides or fashioned into film loops that Raissnia manually manipulates on projectors, which take on the role of instruments. One recent body of work, derived from video recordings of East Harlem street scenes, oscillates between keenly observed portraits, by turn stoic and vibrant, and the sublime nature abstracted images achieve through texture and rhythm. Raissnia will present one of these recent pieces, Litany—with live sound by collaborator Panagiotis Mavridis’s handmade instruments—along with other works that have yet to be shown together in a single program. A discussion with the artist follows.

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