Dana Elmi Sarabi

NO SHOES ON THE CARPET

Dana Elmi Sarabi is a visual artist and design researcher based in Germany. Her research-based practice exists at the intersection of cultural studies and design. She examinates the relationship of diasporic cultures, socio-politics, neo-colonial structures and their impact on public Western spaces through site-responsive installations in third space.

‘NO SHOES ON THE CARPET’ aims to illustrate the carpets emancipatory potential. The defacement of Persian carpets harbors an underlying violence that threatens to erase the information and value that it holds as a cultural archive and link to the people of the Iranian diaspora. Rather than presenting its marginality in the Western space as a state of victimhood, the work treats it as a space of resistance, creativity, and liberation and a proposal to look at how we can reclaim and maintain our cultural agency in the making of carpets as a cultural practice.