How artists have used the 'uncanny' as a feminist strategy.
"Delara II, a staged photograph, shows a pixelated image of Darabi printed onto sculptural effigies reminiscent of Bobo dolls—a reference to the psychologist Albert Bandura’s social-learning experiment in the 1960s, in which children who watched adults punch inflatable, round-bottomed dolls mirrored similar behaviour.
'I was thinking about how Iranian society endorses aggression on women and how this is something that’s ingrained into culture from a very young age,' Soleimani says. 'The blame-shifting, scapegoating—all of these things are challenges that women face.'"
Sheida Soleimani was featured in The Art Newspaper as part of a review by Marisa Charpentier, covering the group exhibition "Uncanny", which is currently on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C., US).
Please find the full article here, and more information about "Uncanny" here.