SF Weekly: In her video series, Sensation, Minoosh Zomorodinia sets up a camera in various windswept terrains and walks in front of it. Then she wraps her entire body, including her face, in a shiny emergency blanket and waits for the wind to push her. Zomorodinia pushes back. Simply by standing there and resisting — even as the wind rips off some of the blanket’s material — Zomorodinia becomes a kind of covered-up, sculptural combatant. The work is funny in the same way that Buster Keaton’s and Charlie Chaplin’s physical comedy is funny. But some art-goers may view Sensation as a subtle political work, especially since it’s included in a new San Francisco exhibit, “Part and Parcel” at the San Francisco Arts Commission main gallery, that examines the 40th anniversary of Iran’s religious revolution.

Zomorodinia, who was born and raised in Iran and now lives in Albany, filmed the work for Sensation in several Bay Area locations and also at Taleghan Mountain, a snowy peak north of Tehran. She filmed the scenes before she knew her work would appear in “Part and Parcel,” and her work at the San Francisco Art Commission gallery is — for the first time — in two channels.

“I don’t make art for political reasons, and I never consider myself a political artist … and I never made this piece with an attempt to be political,” Zomorodinia tells SF Weekly. “Part of my work is actually funny. I make this art intentional because I’m using this idea of using a tiny bit of movement and action. But it’s humorous.”