Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-American multimedia artist, immersive filmmaker, futurist, and cultural activist whose work centers around marginalized voices as well as the role of media, technology, and public collaboration in generating social change.
Her family then received one-way passports that allowed them to flee Iran as refugees and move to a small town in Turkey.
[2] In 2019, she won the James and Audrey Foster Prize, which strives to support and recognize Boston-area artists[9][10] by allowing them to display their artworks at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.
[11] Fahandej’s motivation for her artistic practice is her involvement in social justice, which stems from her personal experience as a woman, a member of a minority group in Iran, an immigrant, and an educator.
Through her art, she tackles oppressive systems to represent the voices of marginalized groups as well as her personal experiences, to generate different expressions of local and international perspectives.
These collaborations of mediums stem from her interest in ‘the fluctuating space of cross-cultural encounter’, in which bringing together different aspects of cultures reflect universal concerns that are fused together through the creative process.