The Blue Dome
Selina Ershadi
Selina Ershadi, work in progress, film still, 2026.
Biography
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Selina Ershadi is an Iranian-born, Aotearoa based artist who works across filmmaking and writing, drawing upon personal and familial histories and archives. Ershadi’s work complicates straight-forward autobiography and troubles the camera’s relationship to lived reality, making visible the risks and failures that haunt any act of documenting. Her film Amator (2019), co-made with her mother Azita Chegini, is the first Farsi language artwork in the Te Papa Tongawera collection. Ershadi's work has been exhibited widely including Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, The Physics Room, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and the 2025 BFI London Film Festival.
Events
Curator's tour at Aotearoa Art Fair
So you Think you Know About Art? Quiz at Aotearoa Art Fair
In Focus: The image that moves me with Selina Ershadi and Nova Paul
Kaitohu Director’s Exhibition tour
Pinhole camera workshop
Evacuation Tapes, a reading by Ruth Buchanan
2026 programme
Each year Artspace Aotearoa asks one question. Across the year, this question is explored by artworks, artists, and audiences. In 2026, we ask, “which history?” You can think of our annual exhibition programme as a connected inquiry, in four parts and with many possible answers. Join us.
Gordon Bennett
Emily Karaka
Selina Ershadi