Life(less)
This series of installations delves into the intricate tapestry of existence, exploring the interplay between presence and absence in the realm of diverse life forms. These artworks encapsulate the profound existential dilemma faced by humanity, considering its significant role in the ongoing environmental crisis. Through this exploration, the artist invites viewers to contemplate the profound connections and responsibilities that bind humanity to the world it inhabits.
Pigeon-Hole
Pigeon-Hole explores the tension between self-construction and self-entrapment. Sometimes, the identities we once authored are returned to us, fixed and projected, narrowing the space for transformation. The work reflects on this process of being pigeonholed—trapped within a version of the self that resists change. Drawing on prosopagnosia, the inability to recognise faces, as a metaphor, the piece gestures toward the liberating potential of not being recognised—a reminder that identity can remain in flux. Each head plays a voice in a different language, describing a personality. Together, they form a layered chorus, questioning the limits of recognition and the multiplicity of being.
Purple
Purple embodies the colour of ambiguity—fragmented by circumstance, saturated with emotion. The work reflects on moments, often ordinary yet charged, when our sense of self feels scattered. In the wake of emotional events, we may find ourselves fading in and out of clarity, piecing together fragments in search of wholeness. The head, hollow and receptive, contains a looping video projection, a quiet cycle of self-reassembly. Purple becomes both the space of dissolution and the act of gathering oneself again, a recurring existential crisis distilled into a single, shifting hue.
Bitter-Sweet
Bittersweet considers the stillness that doubt can provoke—the suspended state in which decisions are postponed and possibilities remain untested. Drawing from a childhood practice in Iran of collecting apricot pits before breaking them open, the work transforms this gesture into a meditation on hesitation. 790 half-painted apricot pits occupy the space, each a fragment of accumulated uncertainty. Their collection involved acts of exchange: making jam, offering fruit to strangers, and letting the pits accrue through these encounters. Unopened, they hold a quiet tension—an unanswered question of whether, when broken, the taste will be bitter or sweet.
Blue
Blue addresses water as a rare and vital resource, a fragile thread sustaining human existence. The work reflects on scarcity not only as an environmental crisis, but as a metaphor for the tension between ambition and stillness. In a world saturated with images of what we should become, the dissonance between those projections and our lived reality can leave us suspended—present yet unsettled, “here” yet adrift. In the installation, water drips from a tap into a pair of boots only when observed, an act that collapses presence, attention, and depletion into a single gesture. Blue stands as both a warning and a meditation on the delicate balance between survival and becoming.
