Woman, life, freedom series
2023
Cyanotype on paper, manipulated
Each: 30 x 22 cm / 11.8″ x 8.6″
Photography-centered approaches and practices
About a year after the Iranian woman, life, freedom movement, the intense emotions and urgency that drove my work settled as the resistance settled. A key idea was that if I were working with politically charged photographs, I might engage in photography directly rather than reinterpret photos through painting and drawing. I revisited contemporary Iranian political and social imagery with fresh eyes, this time without the constraints of a predetermined medium. In parallel, I also examined and archived personal materials—family photographs, childhood images, and ID photos—seeking connections between personal and collective histories. In these series, I experimented with cyanotype, painting on photographs, collage, and photo-based art. A key strategy I adopted was reiteration—intentionally revisiting and reinterpreting themes, images, and symbols across multiple works.
