Pantea Karimi is a multidisciplinary artist with an interest in the taxonomy of image-text relationships. She researches visual representations and textual contents in medieval Persian and Arab, and early modern European scientific manuscripts in five categories: mathematics, medicinal botany, anatomy, optics/astronomy, and cartography. She works with interactive installations, silkscreen, and digital prints on various substrates and virtual reality. In 2018, at The British Library, Karimi looked at a few manuscripts on early astronomy by Biruni and Galileo which provided the inspiration for this exhibition. In Countdown: Biruni-Galileo-Apollo, Karimi exhibits multimedia works that present the Moon from scientific and cultural views, specifically in medieval Persian poetry. The works also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing.
Pantea Karimi – COUNTDOWN: BIRUNI – GALILEO – APOLLO
May 2019
