Making Space

A solo exhibition at Café Valor curated by the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Spring 2026 intern, Raya Vinar, featuring the work of Minoosh Zomorodinia.

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday May 7, 2026 || 5:00 – 7:00 pm 

Using technology to chart the movement of her body through time and space, multi-disciplinary artist Minoosh Zomorodinia engages in the methodic practice of route making. Performance like in its fleeting nature, the ritualistic process of walking becomes a means for physical representation once recorded, transforming the intangible into something visible and lasting.

In tracking her footsteps Zomorodinia marks a physical territory, countering the domineering and restrictive nature of traditional borders and land ownership. By approaching the habitual action of walking with elevated consciousness, she places critical attention on the implications of “map-making” and brings into question the aftereffects of colonization in understanding identity and belonging. The works in Making Space ask us to consider the complex relationship between people and place; how is the body’s existence in an environment dictated, monitored, and disturbed?

Manifested across multiple mediums, routes are repeated, reconfigured and reimagined. In their diversity of form, each work is representationally unique. Dividing emphasis between outline, negative space and color, the artist plays with varying ways shapes can be altered and arranged to invoke wide-ranging visual experience.

About the Curator:

Raya Vinar is SFAC Galleries’s Spring 2026 intern and an Art History & Museum Studies and Dance student at the University of San Francisco.

Learn more about my work here

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