About

Melika Abikenari is an Iranian-born Brooklyn-based artist who works in an array of mediums, including performance, sculpture, textile, and video. Her practice investigates the enduring and evolving nature of the intergenerational inheritance of memory, matrilineality, and the body in relation to state violence and the forces and consequences of displacement. Through research, material investigation, and site-responsive installations, she explores safety and protection in relation to individual and collective processes of somatic and psychological healing. Drawing inspiration from the historical significance of felt-making and clay in Iran, she integrates these materials as organs in the transfer of body and brain memory into/onto vessels that contain histories, voices, traumas, and means of survival passed within and through generations.


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