Porous Vessels by S. Emsaki

porous vessels is an exhibition by S. Emsaki, presented at Higgins Art Gallery of Cape Cod Community College. In the multimedia installation, the artist explores the dialectics of grief in a diverse range of gestures, ready-made and fabricated objects, containers, and arrangements.

Emsaki is an artist and educator born in the town of Atomic Energy, a temporary suburb on the outskirts of Isfahan, Iran. Her medium is wide-ranging with an overarching conceptual interest in natural resources and material inquiry through re-framing the mundane. Her work manifests as site-responsive drawings, video essays, time-based installations, and printed matter. In 2021, she was awarded a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, where she currently works as the Visual Arts Coordinator. porous vessels serves as the public showcase of Emsaki’s residency at Cape Cod Community College this March and is her second solo exhibition on the Cape.