December 1, 2025
Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
"On Making Space"
An artist talk with artist and DoVA faculty member, Nazafarin Lotfi. How has space, and our relation to space, shaped our identities and sense of self throughout time? How does a self-contained body operate within space vs. a body assumed as incomplete? Lotfi discusses her work, recent exhibitions, and some of the leading questions that fuel her practice.
Nazafarin Lotfi is a multidisciplinary artist and organizer who creates space through drawing, painting, sculpture, and community organizing. Embracing the power and agency of subtle forms, absence, and ambiguous materiality, Lotfi’s practice troubles the status quo and points to alternative realities beyond the here-and-now.