Shay Salehi is an artist currently living and working in New York City. Anchored by a passion against animal exploitation, Shay's interdisciplinary practice is a meditation on the complexities of the human to non human relationship. Her research is an investigation of the framework that enforces human superiority and the ownership and capitalization of non human bodies. By untangling the history of ownership, dominance and domestication her practice provides the opportunity toward alternative futures that incorporate interspecies solidarity.
Shay is a second generation Canadian, with a rich history between a Polish and Iranian upbringing. This has greatly informed her practice as non human oppression is deeply rooted in colonial ideologies that uphold multiple forms of inequality. Her exposure to diverse cultural values has reinforced the importance of non human ecologies as a source of knowledge.
To contact, please email shayhsalehi@gmail.com