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7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Tannaz Saatchi, Takhteh Nard, from the Through Tangled Threads series, 2024, woven archival inkjet print, 46 x 71 cm. Courtesy of the Artist .
Tannaz Saatchi, Takhteh Nard, from the Through Tangled Threads series, 2024, woven archival inkjet print, 46 x 71 cm. Courtesy of the Artist .
Reception
Opening Reception | Through Tangled Threads
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In Through Tangled Threads, Tannaz Saatchi traces the layered complexities of diasporic identity, where cultural memory is inherited rather than lived. As a second-generation immigrant raised in the Iranian diaspora, Saatchi uses photography to examine the meaning, emotion, and historical value attached to inherited objects, images, and traditions that have shaped her cultural identity. Looking at her subject through a diasporic lens, she explores how collective memory is carried forward, and how it shifts and becomes abstract with time and distance. Her photographs invite viewers to consider identity as a layered and negotiable construct of imagination.
Tannaz Saatchi holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work examines memory, nostalgia, and the body through a cross-cultural, feminist lens. Working both within and beyond the studio, she uses objects and staged tableaux to explore her relationship with others and herself. Saatchi’s practice reveals the emotional resonance embedded in everyday objects and spaces.
As a second-generation Iranian-Canadian artist, her cultural identity is shaped through inherited traditions, language, and objects rather than firsthand experience. Her work bridges the absence and presence of Iran in her life, inviting reflection on the layered, shifting nature of cultural identity and the fragility of memory.
Saatchi’s work has been exhibited in Piggybacks through the Living Room, Onto Tomorrow, Ghost Images, and Why Photography, and published in SeaBuzz Magazine, The Unfiltered, and Woo Publication. She has received the Evangelos “Angie” Apostolides Scholarship, the Andrew Oksakovsky and Dr. Emily Goetz Memorial Scholarship, and the Marion V. Murray Memorial Scholarship. Saatchi currently lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
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