Zenit brings together photographs, films, and light-responsive installations by Berlin-based artist Shirin Sabahi. Shown in non-chronological order, and some for the first time, the photographs ground her artistic roots in photography—at times as a study, and at others as the work itself.
The book includes an essay by writer and critic Kirsty Bell, a conversation between Sabahi and artist and longtime friend Vijai Maia Patchineelam, and a response to Sabahi's unfinished and ongoing works by writer and translator Bela Shayevich. The book returns, too, to Sabahi's very first camera, passed down through her family: a Soviet Zenit EM SLR, an origin frame for her way of looking and a device that, along with its world, has since disappeared.
Shirin Sabahi (born in 1984 in Tehran) is a Berlin-based artist and filmmaker. Her projects often involve stories and remnants of artifacts and places and include films and their by-products.
