Iman Issa: Heritage Studies

Iman Issa’s multimedia works explore the relationship between history, memory, language, and objects. Her projects typically incorporate multiple pieces that are themselves comprised of multiple forms. Recent installations have allowed Issa, who also writes fiction and essays as part of her practice, to investigate historical works of art through poetic, written descriptions and varied interpretative forms. Issa’s modest but beautifully crafted objects, short videos, snapshot-like photographs, and accompanying texts use language and juxtaposition to create ambiguous, but resonant tableaus.

For PAMM, Issa will present a new body of works drawn from a larger series entitled Heritage Studies. Interested in exploring the way in which historical objects resonate with (and are deployed by) the present, Issa’s exhibition will reinterpret various objects from the past as newly imagined forms. These re-envisioned works will be accompanied by interpretative texts. Embodying the cool and seductive minimalist aesthetic for which she is known, these sculptures represent a shift in scale for the artist and an expansion of her material vocabulary.