KAMGARI, Abedar

Abedar Kamgari is an artist, curator, and arts worker based in Hamilton and Toronto. In her practice, Abedar considers contexts and conditions of displacement and diaspora. She is interested in body memory, complicated inheritances, border spaces, and the idea of distance. Abedar often engages performative, site-responsive, and participatory strategies to unpack the presence, absence, movements, and responsibilities of bodies in relation to land and labour.  She holds a BFA (2016) and an MFA (2022) in interdisciplinary studio. Abedar has performed, screened, and exhibited her work in a range of institutions across Southern Ontario.