Leila Mesdaghi
  • About
    • statement / bio / cv
  • Work
    • Mixed Media >
      • All Dipped In Warm Honey
      • "A Stand of Aspen in December"
      • Bloody Days
      • Iceland
      • Loud Silence
      • Love/ Dread
      • One-way Ticket
    • Drawing /Paintings >
      • Between Air and Water
      • Between Head and Heart
      • Between Water and Mist
      • Between The Flesh
      • God's Love
      • Injustice
      • Lee and I
      • Nonobjective
      • Self-Healing
      • The Persistence of X
    • Performance >
      • Barzakh
      • Gratitude
      • Healing of The Heart
      • I Am Sorry for What I Said
      • Privilege of Removal
      • Privilege of Removal/ Screenshots
      • Unspoken Words
    • Performance/ Video >
      • Aah
      • A Love Letter to Safayar
      • Bunche Beach
      • Deeper Than Sorrow
      • For You I Will Die
      • Gratitude/ Video
      • Home vs. Home
      • I Am Sorry for What I Said/ Video
      • I'm Waiting : Love/ Dread
      • Khoda, Khod'a: God, Self awareness/ Video
      • My Beautiful Beard
      • Privilege of Removal
      • Shokhm
      • When The Clouds Cry
      • 126 Seconds
    • Sculpture >
      • Breaking a Habit
      • Cavity
      • Foreclosures
    • Installations >
      • Somayeh
  • Contact
Privilege of Removal
2016
Performance/ Video
Fort Myers, FL

In “Privilege of Removal” I challenge how we observe, react, and respond to social and political issues. We watch real life behaviors of physical, verbal, and moral abuse on T.V and computer screens, and instead of rejecting, we justify and accept them as  socio-political norms. By literally throwing dead fish at a pane of glass, I act as a violent exhibitionist and remind the viewer of our silent voyeuristic nature. I smashed dead fish against the barrier that separates the world we live in from the world we witness.

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