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Aishe Vejdani (b.1986) is a visual artist, currently based in between Tokyo and Finland. Her first exposure to art was through her mother and grandmother’s Turkmen carpet making which familiarised her with intriguing geometric patterns and minimal yet rich colours. Later her first academic exposure to art was to English literature during her bachelor studies. Where she got fascinated by different methods of writing such as stream of consciousness and absurd yet humorous writings of Samuel Beckett. It was during these years that she decided to shift to painting for her master’s degree. 

Today after more than a decade of practice in painting, experimentation with video, film and music, she still takes inspiration from literary methods such as stream of consciousness by applying concurrence of different elements. This allows her to get out of restrictions of essentialism where she can travel freely between multiple layers of her being and different visual styles. Within this frame she aims to construct a connection between her familial history, her two nationalities—Iranian-Finnish, her Turkmen ethnicity and her desire to experiment with different forms and mediums. Furthurmore Her practice reflects her continuous relocation between Finland and multiple countries such as Japan, South Korea, Austria, Germany… during last 7 years.

Through her artistic research, she has engaged her practice with themes such as Identity in relation to limits of representation and narrative, Memory in relation to familial history shaped by contemporary historical events, Future and the challenge of envisioning it, and currently with reconstructing the idea of home through process of learning and re-leraning  languages_ Turkmen her mother tongue, and Finnish.

Photo: Kamila Sladowska
2020
Intensive Filmmaking course in the experimental film school: Academy of Moving people and images, Helsinki, Finland.
2012
MA in Painting, Isfahan Art University, Iran.
2008
BA in English Literature, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran.
2021
Candidate member (kokelasjäsen) of Taidemaalariliito.
2020
Member of AV-arkki, an association for Finnish media art.
2023
Taike  exhibition grant
2022
Finnish Cultural Foundation (SKR) working grants and material cost.
2022
Taike working grant.
2021
Taike working grant and material cost.
2017
Paulon Säätiö project grant.
2023
Lost Future Reimagined, at Caisa gallery
2022
From Memory to Memorial in Myymälä 2, Helsinki, Finland.
2019
From laughter to Cry, B-galleria, Turku, Finland.
2017
From East to West: My Diary, Lauttasaaren Seurakunta Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2016
The One and Only, Loimaa art museum's Dryer gallery, Finland .
2021
Mänttä Art Festival, Finland .
2020
Stories from the Sea, Stories from the City, Stoa, Helsinki, Finland.
2015
Turkmen Painters, Dibaee Gallery Gonbade-Qabus, Iran.
2015
Ateljee Hulmi, Loimaa, Finland.
2013
Self-portraits and Portraits, Apadana gallery, Isfahan, Iran.
2018
Private collections, Finland.
2016
Loimaa Art Museum
2021
Screening Fog at Kotka international film festival, Finland.
2020
Screening Fog at International film festival Love&Anarchy In Helsinki, in a curated section called ‘The Current…’
2019
Short film "Beginning", directed by Camille Navarro
2019
Short film "Flesh Ain't Weak, directed by Mariangela Pluchino.
2020
Music Arranger and Singer for her short film “Fog”.
2014-2017
Lead Singer in Turkmen Folklore Music group “Saira Dutar”, Gonbad-e kavoos, Iran.
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