Yekta Tarki, MFA Candidate

Art and Art History Department, Ucalgary

Yekta.tarki@ucalgary.ca

Yekta Tarki (she/her) is a first-year MFA student at the University of Calgary. She grew up in Tehran, Iran. She has always been interested in exploring the concepts related to the relationship between humans and nature in her art and research practices. She developed her interest through her master's thesis in Iran with the subject: Art in The Anthropocene: Reflection of a Ruined Environment in Western Contemporary Art. After completing her master's degree, she continued to delve deeper into subjects related to art, the human-nature relationship, and other sciences such as geology science and environmental studies. Currently, she is doing a research-creation on the subject matter of the Pyrocene. Her research involves the study of wildfires in Alberta, Canada and in particular the Fort McMurray Wildfire on May 2016.