Join us for a screening and artist talk with Raha Raissnia.

Raha Raissnia's expanded cinema works are closely imbricated with her painting and drawing practice. This talk will focus on her film performances and installations, using hybrid 16mm film and 35mm slide projections with handmade or altered screens, often in collaboration with experimental musicians such as Aki Onda, Charles Curtis, or Panagiotis Mavridis. Raissnia’s densely textured work draws in equal measure on the gestural and photographic, the figurative and abstract. As her films render these boundaries ambiguous through layers of manipulation and reference, so too does her two-dimensional work present a world that contains aspects of both but belongs properly to neither. It features passageways to indeterminate locations and irrational architectures. “My paintings brought abstraction to the vision I captured from the world on film and now the films are bringing elements of reality into my paintings," Raissnia says. Her viewer is left with the (impossible) task of excavating the two. Talk followed by a discussion and Q&A with the artist, moderated by CCA faculty Dicky Bahto.