JEANNO GAUSSI

Gaussi’s work explores cultural identities and aspects of memorization and remembrance. She often develops site-responsive projects that have a symbiotic relationship with the places in which they are created and through which she examines the characteristics and unique aspects of her surroundings., As an artist who grew up in Kabul, Delhi, and Berlin, Gaussi’s multi-cultural background has greatly in uenced her artistic practice, but her interests and work transcend national borders and categorizations.

Gaussi has participated in residencies in Pakistan (International Diasporic Artists Residency, Karachi); Jordan (International Artist Workshop, Shatana); Turkey; and Palestine (Al-Mamal Art Residency, Jerusalem), among others. She has received art grants from the Triangle Arts Fund, the Defa Film Fund, and the Goethe-Institut. In 2010, she participated in the Jerusalem Show IV, curated by Jack Persekian, and was invited by ArteEast to present her work at the Sharjah March Meetings, UAE.Her short films have been screened internationally at festivals, including Kara Film Festival, Pakistan; the International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; and Clermont-Ferrand Festival, France. Gaussi is a member of the Afghan Contemporary Art Research team, which documents the contemporary art scene in Afghanistan. In 2012, she was invited to be one of the speakers at TEDx (Marrakesh, Morocco), and a participating artist featured at dOCUMENTA [13] in Kabul, Afghanistan and Kassel, Germany.