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MARIAM GHANI

artist, writer, filmmaker, teacher

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    • Indexical Films
      • Indexical Films productions
      • Dis-Ease
    • film + video
      • feature films
      • video installations
      • single-channel videos
      • Parallel Frames (videos 2000-03)
    • research-based projects
    • public projects
    • participatory projects
    • multi-platform projects
      • Notes on Collapse (2009-present)
      • warm data projects (2005-present)
      • Kabul: Partial Reconstructions (2002-07)
    • collaborations
      • Index of the Disappeared (2004-present)
      • Performed Places (2006-present)
      • Afghan Films (2012-2020)
    • photography + prints
    • performances
    • sound installations
    • web-based projects
ceramic mosaic based on a data visualization of linguistic diversity in New York City, installed at LaGuardia Airport Terminal C
Mariam Ghani, The Garden of Forked Tongues, Queens Museum installation detail
Mariam Ghani, Speculations, Photo 96
Still from What We Left Unfinished: behind the scenes of Juwansher Haidary’s unfinished film Wrong Way (Indexical Films/Afghan Films, 2019)
Mariam Ghani & Erin Ellen Kelly, Forest of Legs, from the series When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved, dye transfer print on dibond, 2019
Mariam Ghani, Like Water from a Stone print
Mariam Ghani, Fugitive Refrains V
Mariam Ghani, A Brief History of Collapse, Dar ul-Aman Palace
A young Black man (Stephen Lyons II) in a white button down shirt and grey vest stands next to a marble column on a balcony and looks over his shoulder, in a still from the performance Like a Phantom Near or Far
Index of the Disappeared: Codes of Conduct
Mariam Ghani, The City & The City, 2015
Index of the Disappeared, Black Sites I: The Seen Unseen
Index of the Disappeared, Black Sites I: The Seen Unseen
Mariam Ghani, The Trespassers installation view
Mariam Ghani & Erin Ellen Kelly's three channel video installation as exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2023
a video projection and two illuminated textile works installed in a dark gallery space
Mariam Ghani, A Brief History of Collapses installation view
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