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The sheer range of Soleimani's practice\u2014her choice of imagery, subject matter, and method\u2014informs a visual language that is surprising, inventive, imaginative, and contemporary. Soleimani\u2019s exhibition in the Institute for the Humanities Gallery will feature a newly curated selection of photographs from the Ghostwriter series, along with a new site-specific wall drawing created as part of the project.\r\n\r\nAbout the artist:\r\nSheida Soleimani is an artist, educator, and licensed wildlife rehabilitator whose work examines power, environmental crisis, queerness, migration, and care. The daughter of political refugees who escaped Iran in the early 1980s, Soleimani draws on archival materials, props, and sculptural elements to create visually lush, politically incisive tableaux. 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