Zelikha Zohra Shoja
Bibi Amir
2021

A statement by the artist

An ancestral remembrance through haunted bodies. A family gathers to remember a deceased matriarch. Despite a lack of material remnants to trace her life, the family recollect on their shared memories and ultimately reveal an unknowability of her silent life.

Zelikha Zohra Shoja

Zelikha Zohra Shoja (she/they) is an Afghan American moving image artist working primarily in single-channel non-fiction and experimental forms. Her artistic practice is engaged in geopoetics, personal and collective histories of rupture, communal storytelling, grief-work, and the transmission of memory.