Making Space

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.

About the Artist:

Minoosh Zomorodinia is an Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist who makes visible the emotional and psychological reflections of her mind’s eye inspired by her environment. She employs walking as a catalyst to reference the power of technology as a colonial structure while negotiating boundaries of land. Zomorodinia has received several awards, residences, grants and exhibited locally and internationally. She serves on the Southern Exposures’ Curatorial Council, Berkeley Art Center Program Committee, and a Board Member of Women Eco Artists Dialog. She earned her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and MA and BA from Azad University in Tehran.

Opening Public Reception Details:

Thursday, May 7, 2026
Cafe Valor, War Memorial Veterans Building
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103
Free and open to the public. No reservations necessary.