https://monabozorgi.com/photo-projects daily 1.0 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528236595806-EHQ58X7P994DAKLVHW8B/Bozorgi%2CMona_+Stereotype+copy.jpg Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528321477589-CD4Y5FWZWZVLDY911QXS/Copy+of+004.JPG Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528320373243-OO7M6BWK2AMLFM8HZZKG/001.jpg Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528324061973-L2VWAEMYFZ191GPA69WI/Forbidden+Gum.jpg Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528324365127-D0CILY40FDWAONRB42GT/08+copy.jpg Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528230457827-16NEAIOBRWTBDI8QJKWO/PHOT_MonaHajiaghabozorgi_Spring2017_Mosch_01.jpg Photo Projects Untitled # 01, 2017, 4x5 film, archival inkjet print, 16 x 24” During my exploration process, I experiment with combining photography and sculpture to present objectification in different locations, levels and ways. I aim to make the viewer question the role of women in society. In this project, I photograph women in the museum setting to equate women’s value with the function of an object in a museum. In the new approach, I represent woman as a museum sculpture like the way a bust is displayed in the museum to reference the fantasy of perfection and worth which is a universal issue in women’s objectification. Thus, my entire body of work tries to communicate the idea that objectification of women occurs across countries, societies and religions, while also highlighting the paradoxical nature of simultaneous value and oppression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528320333736-TEUKN9CS7DJ9RI82RUXX/01.jpg Photo Projects Untitled # 01, 2013, archival inkjet print, 16 x 24” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528320035180-KTLD19KIM2157T427XZP/Objectify01.jpg Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1528320772927-JN9EE3BYBFKAU6V3LWFS/IMG_7733+copy.jpg Photo Projects Following Mona on her path of photography, you may notice that she has always been obsessed with body or, better say, with eliminating body. I wonder what drives the temptation for this elimination?! Her beliefs? Her background? Or it is just her artist inside who likes this game? Anyway what so ever it is; this pushes her to get rid of the element of body in her works as if her body is a burden she doesn’t know what to do with. Since her previous exhibition in the fall of 2006 onward, all she does is about dissolving body in space and objects around. While in this collection, this ends in complete elimination of body. And so we face body as dress stand?! Or better say, as we see in her photos, dress stand as body! Moreover, an Art Deco dress stand with almost no place in the pictorial memory of we Iranians and more looks like crucified phallus! Yes that grotesque, that far and that cold. In this collection artist transmutes the body and its identity to a figure that actually does not exist in a nonexistent background with an atmosphere of nothingness; maybe just to tell us that in our time, our bodies are nothing but some dress stands what so ever; no matter if we cover it with a beautiful dress or a shroud or even leave it naked. Farhad Azarin Atbin Art Gallery Owner Spring of 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1625862515096-PYD3Z0NUSSIEAGAQZM48/MonaBozorgi_Portals_Selfportrait-1resized.jpg Photo Projects Untitled # 01, 2016, Archival inkjet print, 16 x 24.” Destructive Interference is a series of photographs that reflect my own experience as a Middle Eastern woman who moved to the US and felt the need to decolonize and re-inhabit a place in order to call it home. This project uncovers how my ‘intra-actions’ with my surroundings help me to inhabit or to survive. These black and white self-portraits attempt to communicate that making a place includes intra-actions between human and nonhuman elements, allowing individuals to overcome destructive interference. These photographs show how we can re-inhabit a place that is simultaneously experimental and representational and question the binaries between self and others, as well as outdoor and indoor. Through this relational experience, my body intra-acts with human and nonhuman elements embedded in the place, such as time, space, light, and memory. The performativity of this experience and the playful movement between light and space allow me to capture my relational experience in conversation with matter and meaning, all of which make a place and allow for the re-inhabitation of a place. This project reflects the idea that home is not only about inhabitation and the temporal occupation of a space; instead, it is made of many elements entangling with us. We are attached and intra-act with places and people in a particular time, and these elements are not separated from the cultural, social, political, and economic structures around us. This project attempts to communicate that our intra-actions with our surroundings, human and nonhuman, allow us to experience exchange and entanglement in various ways and helps us to call a place home. Intra-actions aid us in recognizing and moving past destructive interferences through the decolonization and re-inhabitation of a place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1633397726386-V4FQDS6P7QDCPJHYEQVX/Mona+Bozorji_Objet+Fatale_web.jpg Photo Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1687625033402-FE18RRWU8TX4GS78801V/IMG_8994+copy++WEB.jpg Photo Projects - Unreclining From Threads of Freedom series, 2023, Archival inkjet print on silk fabric, 19.5 x 22.5 in. Threads of Freedom focuses on how Iranian women want to be represented using images taken by themselves and shared on social media. The images are printed on silk fabric, and threads are removed from the weft of the silk. In Threads of Freedom, fabric does not cover women’s hair or body; instead, it becomes a surface that reveals women’s bodies, and the threads of the fabric reweave their shared stories. https://monabozorgi.com/pagecv daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1627247346974-1CL69JXRYZH8J7KGB4OW/Edit+resized.jpg About Self-portrait, 2021 https://monabozorgi.com/thinkering-with-technology daily 0.75 2021-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1620941442260-VRODARL6KFMSPN73OS5C/Pinhole2.jpg Thinkering with Technology - Make it stand out Pinhole Camera (lensless), 2020, Wood, 5.5” W x 5.5” H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1620941674533-B7YD5A3YMAQM10PA08W0/Pinhole.jpg Thinkering with Technology - Make it stand out Pinhole Camera (lensless), 2020, Wood, 5.5” W x 5.5” H https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1621979091356-WTNYH5YCA5LS4CPIRX3B/panoramic+pinhole.jpg Thinkering with Technology - Make it stand out Panoramic Pinhole, 2021, Wood, 7.5” H x 3.5” W x 4.25” D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1620942768568-6KCV24LH0U4J34YRPJFV/Stereoscope.jpg Thinkering with Technology - Make it stand out Stereoscope, 2020, Wood, 7” W x 15” H x 35”D https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b1694304cde7ae8f2b5cc4b/1620941868253-LNQQDSQL6TLNK0OEZSCN/VR+Headset.jpg Thinkering with Technology - Make it stand out Virtual Reality Headset, 2020, Wood, 8.5” W x 12.5” H x 7.5”D