{"id":10817,"date":"2019-11-22T02:32:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T03:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/amitis-motevalli-part-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T04:11:14","slug":"amitis-motevalli-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/amitis-motevalli-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amitis Motevalli Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9989 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-300x169-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-300x169-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-intro-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/amitismotevalli.com\/\">Amitis Motevalli<\/a> is an artist who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and\/or war.<\/p>\n<p>This is her second interview, the first one can be <a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/amitis-motevalli\/\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her experience as a trans-national migrant, is foundational in her work. Through many mediums including, sculpture, video, performance and collaborative public art, her work juxtaposes iconography with iconoclasm. Her work intends to ask questions about violence and historical documentation and canonization, while invoking the significance of a secular grassroots struggle. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, exhibiting art internationally as well as organizing to create an active and critical cultural discourse through information exchange, either in art, pedagogy or organizing artist and educators.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9990\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9990\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Masoul-Performance-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Masoul-Performance-768x1024-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Masoul-Performance-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Masoul-Performance-696x928.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Masoul-Performance-1068x1424.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Masoul-Performance-315x420.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masoul Performance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9991\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9991\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Motevalli_Ruquyyas-Reverberation-Performance-Zanjir-Back-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruquyya&rsquo;s Reverberation Performance Zanjir Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amitis Motevalli is an artist who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and\/or war. This is her second interview, the first one can be found here. Her experience as a trans-national migrant, is foundational in her work. Through many mediums including, sculpture, video, performance and collaborative public art, her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}