The ADKDW is pleased to welcome the artist and filmmaker Sanaz Sohrabi for a residency in Cologne.
Sanaz Sohrabi will continue her research on British-controlled oil operations in Iran as ADKDW artist-in-residence from November. The film screening Visualizing Extraction as part of her residency will showcase her research on how the political life of oil has contributed to global media culture, focusing on the relationship between petromodernity and technologies of vision utilized by British Petroleum in Iran and broader Asia.
Over the past six years, Sanaz Sohrabi has been working on a trilogy of essay films that uncover the relationship between the political economy of photography, archival technologies and the visual history of resource extraction in Iran.
The ADKDW Residency brings international thinkers & artists to Cologne to join forces with the local actors and make visible the potential of a transcultural urban society.
