Audio Archive Booth

Public Art

Audio Archive Booth

Sholeh Asgary |

2023

Engage with artist Sholeh Asgary’s Audio Archive Booth to record stories, reflections, experiences, hopes, dreams, pasts, and futures of the Iranian diaspora. Asgary shares: “The experience of diaspora is a series of coverings and uncoverings—much like memory, and this moment is uncovering much.”

Visit YBCA’s Grand Lobby to add your voice to the archive.

Sholeh Asgary, Audio Archive Booth, 2022/23, installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2023. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photographs by Tommy Lau.

Sholeh Asgary

Sholeh Asgary is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist whose works implicate the viewer-participant in future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound. Asgary’s early somatic experiences in constant movement across borders influence her.

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Lead image: Sholeh Asgary, Audio Archive Booth, 2022/23, installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2023. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photograph by Pamela Gentile.

YBCA Programs are made possible in part by MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, California Arts Council, #StartSmall, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Tambourine, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Marilyn Conrad Trust, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, William G. Irwin Charity Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, The Bernard Osher Foundation, In memory of Kevin King,The Sato Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Gaia Fund, and YBCA Members.

Generous support provided by Blue Shield of California. Blue Shield of California is an independent member of the Blue Shield Association.

YBCA is grateful to the City of San Francisco for its ongoing support.