Based in Toronto, Parastoo Anoushahpour is a moving image artist whose startling, immersive works both incorporate and investigate various media, probing in protean ways ideas of subjectivity and power in forms of cinematic representation and narrative.

Working predominantly in video and installation, her recent solo and collaborative work has been presented at Punto de Vista Film Festival, Sharjah Film Platform, Viennale, Projections (New York Film Festival), Wavelengths (Toronto International Film Festival), Images Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Media City Festival (Windsor/Detroit), Experimenta (Bangalore), ZK/U Centre for Art & Urbanistics (Berlin), and Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography (Toronto).

For more than a decade Anoushahpour has also been working collaboratively with Ryan Ferko and Faraz Anoushahpour. Their shared practice explores the nature of narrative and representation and the complex connections to the making of meaning and, more provocatively, to the structures of power that inform them.

We are pleased to welcome Parastoo Anoushahpour as a Café Ex guest artist.