Sheida Soleimani
Safehouse, 2024
Archival pigment print
101.6 x 76.2 cm
40 x 30 in
40 x 30 in
Edition of 3 plus 2 AP
Copyright the artist & Harlan Levey Projects
During his trek through the Zagros Mountains into Turkey, Soleimani’s father sought shelter at a series of safehouses. One of his hosts, a fellow political refugee, invited his guests to...
During his trek through the Zagros Mountains into Turkey, Soleimani’s father sought shelter at a series of safehouses. One of his hosts, a fellow political refugee, invited his guests to play chess. This photograph references that moment in Soleimani’s father’s journey and continues the artist’s metaphor of migration as a game.