How to Connect With Landscape is the title of both the solo exhibition and the expansive three-channel video installation of Parisa Karimi in KFMA. The exhibition brings together recent works that explore regeneration and healing as acts of resistance across postindustrial and postcolonial terrains—both internal and external.

Through multi-sensory and poetic approaches, Karimi creates embodied encounters between landscape and the body, tracing interconnections across ecological, emotional, and political dimensions. The video installation How to Connect With Landscape, realized in the Sápmi region of Sweden, investigates one of the world’s largest forest ecosystems—an essential global carbon sink. Under the pressures of industrial development and the climate crisis, Karimi follows the deep entanglements between humans and landscape through forests, industrial ruins, local ecologies, and community histories, revealing the enduring imprints of colonial extraction and environmental transformation.

Continuing her inquiry into environment and relationality, Karimi is currently expanding her research in Taiwan by following the paths of an aquatic plant marked as world's worst invasive species: the water hyacinth. 

As an artist-in-residence at the Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, she began her new long-term artistic research titled Relationship Work with Water Hyacinth — a poetic and ecological investigation into ecosystems, love, and the forms of care that sustain them in a globally shifting world. The project traces the encounters and movements of the water hyacinth through tropical waterways, exploring the entanglements between humans and more-than-humans and questioning our understanding of nature, borders, and national identity. Her work reflects on global concerns, probing the interconnections of bodies in landscapes, while envisioning possibilities of regeneration and healing from over generation passed on wounds.



About the Artist│

Parisa Karimi is an artist, filmmaker, and educator. In her transdisciplinary practice she interlaces art, research, and narrative, using technology to create immersive environments and experiential spaces.
Working with assemblage as a core method, she combines animation, objects, scent, interactive interfaces, and audiovisual media to explore how sensory and emotional experiences can become forms of thought and storytelling. Her works intertwine documentary and speculative elements to address socio-ecological and philosophical questions, focusing on the relationships between nature, humans, and more-than-human bodies within postcolonial landscapes.

Grounded in site-specific research, Karimi engages archival materials, interviews, and collaborations with local communities to explore stories that are often overlooked or hidden within landscapes. Central to her practice are processes of unlearning, relearning, and collective healing processes—opening possibilities for radical imagination and shared presents and futures.

As the founder and artistic director of RanGBarang Animation Studio, Karimi continues to collaborate with film and theater production teams. Her works have been presented at numerous international film festivals, art festivals, and theater events.



Organizer│
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts × Pier 2 Art Center Artist-in-Residence Program


Opening Reception│
Saturday, November 22, 2025, 2:30 PM





Parisa Karimi
How to Connect With Landscape
2024
3-channel-video installation, scent composition, headphones, ceramics, sawdust, mirror pieces, text
Dimensions Variable
15 minutes 10 seconds