Shadi Mahsa, Regan O’Callaghan, Aga Piotrowska, and Joanna Zdzienicka – a carrier of identity

Shadi Mahsa and Regan O’Callaghan (from London) with Aga Piotrowska and Joanna Zdzienicka (from Poland) are currently working together by email/Skype, sharing a series of experimental images as a way of initiating dialogue.

'Fridge poetry mind map' from Aga Piotrowska and Joanna Zdzienicka. Image courtesy the artists. — ‘Fridge poetry mind map’ from Aga Piotrowska and Joanna Zdzienicka. Image courtesy the artists.

Shadi writes,

“The rotten, old basket was chosen as a tool, to express the old thoughts and boundaries we all have and carry with us, regardless of who we are and where we come from.”

Shadi Mahsa. Image courtesy of the artist.

Image courtesy Aga Piotrowska and Joanna Zdzienicka.

As the two artists [Aga Piotrowska, and Joanna Zdzienicka] from Poland, were aiming to experience nature into their side of the project…

Image courtesy Aga Piotrowska and Joanna Zdzienicka.

whilst Shadi and Regan decided to make series of portraits, outdoors, Shadi dressed in traditional Persian attire, and Regan in a priest’s cassock and [wearing] one of Shadi’s wigs, emphasising the morphing of both identities.