Abedar Kamgari (She/Her)Diaspora, Migration, Language, Distance, Desire, Performance, Hybridity.Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design, OCAD University.
Abedar Kamgari is an artist, independent curator, and arts worker based in Hamilton. Her practice unpacks the complexities of displacement and diaspora using site-responsive, embodied, and relational approaches to video and performance art. She is concerned with how the politics of assimilation, access, and belonging unfold in intimate and public social settings. Abedar received a BFA in Studio Art from McMaster University in 2016 and has performed, screened, and exhibited in a range of institutional contexts across Southern Ontario since. As a curator and arts worker, she has organized numerous exhibitions, screenings, and community programs including There and Here (2016), To see and see again (2019), Photophobia: Contemporary Moving Image Festival (ongoing) and the Pressure Points: Gentrification and the Arts in Hamilton symposium (2019).