Room for Disruption (2011) is an installation made of various components and not limited to the printed photograph; incorporating video, wallpaper, and sculptural elements mixed with images.
These works often collocate images from opposing political poles in an attempt to question our understanding of conflict, military censorship, circulation and proliferation of information.
Through this methodological approach Mazinani's installations speak back to the dizzying politics behind the global use/abuse of the instrumental visual language of images and simultaneously enable the viewer to be a part of this dialogue.
[8] Notable group exhibitions include Light: Visionary Perspectives at the Aga Khan Museum (2024-2025)[9] and We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition[10] at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2023).
Some notable public artworks include: Dastgāh (2024), a sound sculpture that visitors can walk into and play (made in collaboration with her brother, Mani Mazinani);[20] Rolling Reflection (2020), a set of 20 cast stainless steel sculptures that mimic San Francisco's unique topography and reflect the unique colours present at different times of day over the Pacific Ocean;[21] U.S.A.I.R.A.N (2014), a public art installation that activates a vacant space by covering all its windows with a set of twenty-one original digital montages;[22] and Celebrating Bay Area Activism, a series of six photo-collage works installed in 36 bus kiosks along Market Street in San Francisco, as part of the SFAC Art on Market Street Public Art program (2013).
[31] These works are: Made in China, an outdoor art installation by Tehran-based artist Negar Farajiani,[32] Hope Echoed, an exhibition of portraits of Iranian women by Toronto's lively arts community,[33] and The Third Space, a three-month exhibition featuring works by six Iranian artists held at the York Quay Gallery in Toronto's Harbourfront Centre[34] The Third Space focused on the hybrid identities that result from life in the diaspora, and received much acclaim.
[35] Other curatorial projects have included: New Constellations: Contemporary Iranian Video Art (2012), with colleague Amirali Ghasemi;[36] Visions of Eternity (2011), including works by Abbas Akhavan, Reza Derakshani, Parastou Forouhar, Oldouz Moslemian, Taimaz Moslemian, Nasser Ovissi, Hamed Sahihi, Soody Sharifi, and Ali Soltani;[37] ALMANAC: An Index of Current Work and Thought, a collaborative publication addressing the relationship between theory and practice, published by Stanford University (2011);[38] and Off World (2009), an interactive site-specific outdoor installation of work by Mateo Guez curated in collaboration with Andrew Mallis.