Activity:

I am interested in the construct of memory as it translates into layers of light, texture and depth. The intermingling of the essence of silence- stasis and the essence of movement.

In my work I try to touch the poetics of existence through a dialogue, a Fugue, between the within and the without and the resulting emergence of a sense of totality and its resonance leading to a peeling away of overlapping layers of perception.

I have always had an interest in investigating the mechanics of a symbiotic relationship between Persian Art and Western Art. The former being my innate orientation and the later the tradition in which I have been trained. My interest lies not so much in a synthesis of styles but rather in an epistemological approach; to dismantle those visual vocabularies to their most bare and abstract cultural elements, using this as a point of departure.

My recent work concerns itself with cultural amnesia and the loss of origin, the loss of cultural memory and the obliteration that ensues it. Silhouettes in these works, far from representing absence, represent presence or rather the dichotomy and the overlapping of presence and absence. I am interested in the resulting friction. The friction leading to a high speed activation and concentration of energy within the silhouette and becoming a residue of the metamorphosis of the psyche.

The remnants of experience, the debris left behind, the after-image, the image reverberating on the back of the burnt cornea.

The crossing point of the unconscious, the personal and the collective. Diasporatic nature of memory. An archeological investigation of the layers of memory. pictures not of things/thoughts but of the overlapping in-prints they have left on the soul.