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Walkumentation: Venus Bayat Thesis Exhibition Reception and Artist Talk

Walkumentation: Venus Bayat Thesis Exhibition Reception and Artist Talk

Walkumentation Venus Bayat The artist’s practice explores themes of alienation, loneliness, and displacement to examine how these conditions shape human experience across different environments. This perspective and feeling of disconnection emerged during the artist's teenage years, and migration has intensified it through encounters with new social contexts. Positioned at the edges of belonging, the artist observes the world from a slight distance, using this standpoint to reflect on contemporary life. Through Walkumentation (an expression the artist coined to explain the process of walking and documenting simultaneously), public spaces become sites of attention and inquiry. Walking is not simply a mode of transport but a method of engagement allowing presence while maintaining space. This project employs walking-based practices and flânerie-style photography. The artist operates as a detached-yet-attentive observer, focusing on subtle gestures, spatial relationships, and quiet moments within everyday life. Rather than direct self-portraiture, the external world serves as a mirror of internal states where photographed figures become extensions of emotional experiences as outsiders in the world.

Zoller Gallery Visual Arts Building
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM on Wed, 8 Apr 2026

Event Supported By

SoVa (Penn State's School of Visual Arts)
8148650444
sova@psu.edu

Artist Group Info

Venus Bayat
vpb5199@psu.edu
Zoller Gallery Visual Arts Building
281 Curtin Road
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
814-865-0444
sova@psu.edu