STARLINGS : LEAFLETS

STARLINGS : LEAFLETS is an interactive video art installation by artist and designer, Saba Maheen unpacking the IDF’s leaflet campaign in Gaza. View the web companion.

STARLINGS : LEAFLETS at Rutgers University

ABOUT SABA MAHEEN

Saba Maheen (b.1997 Lawrenceville, GA) is a female, Muslim, Bengali-American, multimodal maker and thinker working with image, reproduction, and participation. Utilizing multimedic forms, there is a porosity in the goals of her work: In the wake of the viralized Palestinian genocide, Maheen urges her audience to return to a radical, collective humanity for one another, and to understand “hereness and thereness” of intersolidarity liberation. More specifically, analyzing the diminishing rate of attention in response to short-form media, she believes it is imperative to combat the flattening, desensitizing effect that social media has beyond the screen. She considers portals that break down the dichotomy between print-digital, time-space, and human-computer. Her work tends toward repetition, multiples, editions, versions, iterations, units, modules, and collections, and is fabricated often through the most accessible and efficient means. What objects and systems can we influence to prevent a speculatively dark future? Saba Maheen received a B.A. in Studio Art, Human Centered Design and Arabic Language from Dartmouth College (2020). Shooting internationally as a film photographer in the years following the pandemic, she is now completing her MFA in Design at Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University.