My practice explores the translation of human emotional experiences into visual form through multidisciplinary media. I create works that communicate beyond cultural and social differences, drawing from emotions and experiences that are universally felt from joy and intimacy to fear, grief and hope.
Through elements such as nature, the body, light and shadow, repetition, and pattern, I create a space to evoke emotional memory and sensory connection. I aim to create open-ended experiences that allow viewers to reconnect with their own memories and emotions. My work invites moments of reflection, stillness, and presence.
As an Iranian woman, my background inevitably shapes the themes within my practice, including identity, society, displacement, femininity, and collective memory.
Working across photography, film, animation, performance, drawing, and installation, I approach artmaking as a way of sharing vulnerability through what I call a “not-a-story” story, a fragmented and emotional language built from everyday moments, dreams, fears, and human connection.
Through elements such as nature, the body, light and shadow, repetition, and pattern, I create a space to evoke emotional memory and sensory connection. I aim to create open-ended experiences that allow viewers to reconnect with their own memories and emotions. My work invites moments of reflection, stillness, and presence.
As an Iranian woman, my background inevitably shapes the themes within my practice, including identity, society, displacement, femininity, and collective memory.
Working across photography, film, animation, performance, drawing, and installation, I approach artmaking as a way of sharing vulnerability through what I call a “not-a-story” story, a fragmented and emotional language built from everyday moments, dreams, fears, and human connection.
Severed, Summer and fall 2023
4 jacquard fabric print photographs, 15 x 25 in, 2023
Severed, Summer and Fall 2023 is a two-part self-portrait series made between Iran and Canada. It documents transitional period of migration through one image taken in the summer before leaving and another in the first fall after arrival.
During my visa process, departure felt abstract, as if I could detach from place and memory to move more easily but my mindset to build up my power change a little when my visa was approved on an early morning in August, I stepped onto the balcony to take a deep breath a cheer up and noticed a familiar tree that had been cut down a month ago is not in my view as I look around where there was just the remains and the roots,
That absence made me realize how deeply I was attached to small, everyday details of home, remembering leaving as something more complex and emotional than I had expected.
The second image is at the balcony of my first apartment in Canada, a time of uncertainty where roots are not formed, and identity is still developing. It holds a balance between detachment and connection, as I adjust to a new place while carrying what I left behind.
Printed on jacquard fabric, the works feel soft and fluid. The material and installation create a sense of movement and instability, reflecting the changing and unsettled nature of transition and memory.
Canada, Fall 2023
Demo of how it looked printed and installed
Iran, Summer 2023
Demo of how it looked printed and installed
Tangled 2026
18” × 24” black frame, black paint on glass, 18 × 24 in, 2026
As a child, I used to dance on Persian rugs, following the circular lines and motifs that instinctively guided me into twirling. This movement recalls the meditative whirling of Sufi Sama, where spinning becomes a form of spiritual alignment with the rhythm of the universe. The repetitive and circular motifs found in Persian design symbolize unity, eternity, and interconnectedness.
Persian carpets often referred to as “woven gardens” embody elements of Persian cosmology. Their floral motifs and arabesques represent paradise, life, movement, and the invisible connections between all living things. These childhood memories led me to incorporate Persian rug patterns into my work, not only as symbols of cultural identity, but also as representations of structured movement, harmony, and order within apparent chaos.
Painted directly onto glass using black ink, the work explores ideas of transparency, fragility, and presence. Installed without a backing surface, the suspended transparency of the glass allows light and surrounding space to become part of the piece itself, creating shifting reflections and layered visual experiences depending on the viewer’s position.
The work exists between object and image, memory and movement inviting viewers into a contemplative space where cultural memory, ritual, and perception intersect.
Vatical with white background
Horizontal with no background