Pari Banu

Just as children play with a doll and its infinite possibilities of being, the artist and performer Pari Banu understands her art as an exploration of her own identity, in constant metamorphosis. She mainly works through the body and collage, using personal images and others from historical archives, from the domains of history of art, of cinema, and the traditions of her homeland. In her recent pieces, she reflects on the historical construction of the female body through her self-portraits as a trans woman, while also exploring the contradictions and feelings of solitude, isolation, desire, and security through her own biography. This is the case with her piece Mourning for Narcissus which, presented at the CCCB, invites the members of the audience to spy on her own reflection, thus evoking the feeling of strangeness in the meeting between the person who looks and the person who is looked at. Throughout 2024, Pari Banu will take part in an artistic residency programme with No Callarem (We Won’t Be Quiet) working with Artists at Risk and the CCCB.