Artistic Statement

My work explores intimacy, longing, loss, and the traces relationships leave behind. I am interested in what remains after an experience has ended: the physical and emotional residue that continues to inhabit objects, bodies, images, and memory.

Working across photography, video, installation, textiles, embroidery, and sculptural processes, I often alter or physically intervene in photographs rather than allowing the image to remain a passive surface. Thread, fabric, crystals, needles, folds, handwriting, and found objects become extensions of the photographic image. These materials allow tenderness and harm, attraction and discomfort, attachment and rupture to exist within the same object.

My work is informed by my experience as an Iranian woman living between cultural and geographic contexts, but I approach these experiences through intimate gestures rather than direct explanation. Domestic objects, Persian language, bodily traces, and rituals appear as fragments through which larger questions of belonging, memory, femininity, and displacement emerge.

I am drawn to the moment when something familiar becomes slightly unstable: when softness carries the possibility of injury, when beauty conceals toxicity, or when an object meant to comfort becomes evidence of absence. Rather than resolving these contradictions, I use image and material to hold them together.