This work uncovers psychological dimensions of memory and archiving through pixel art in Ziba Rajabi's Glitched Home.
Ziba Rajabi's femme interiority in Glitched Home is made of 25,000 canvas-like pixels. Her creating these pixels is a way of feeling through a particular memory of screened proximity and a mediated sense of familial relations. The pixels, then, are another arrangement of archiving, where archiving, in Rajabi's practice, is a way of layering intimacy as a felt dimension. The building out/up/of these intimacies creates the interplay of a sensed dimension; a dimension understood as not only spatial, but psychological, emotional, temporal, all at once.
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