Iranian Artist, live and works between Sweden, Norrkoping and Canada. Born 1984, Tehran/ Iran.
My work is shaped by my years living under the Islamic regime in Iran, where daily life was marked by conflict, fear, and the psychological weight of state-imposed oppression. The atmosphere of constant surveillance, sudden eruptions of violence, and the quiet terror that settles into the body has left marks that continue to resurface in my paintings. These traumas live within the imagery I create figures caught between dignity and distortion, souls pressed into silence, and spaces charged with an invisible but palpable tension.
In my practice, I often navigate the boundary between the real and the hallucinatory, a territory deeply informed by my fascination with Francis Bacon. His raw, existential energy his ability to twist the human form into a revelation of inner torment has had a profound influence on me. Like Bacon, I seek to depict not the literal appearance of suffering but its psychological truth: the scream held inside, the body unsettled by forces it cannot control, the intimate violence of memory.
I reflect the long history of destruction and unrest that has shaped the Iranian experience through distant, unsettled gazes and environments that feel both familiar and estranged. My paintings become a diary of storms images frozen in the mind during moments of upheaval, static yet vibrating with unresolved tension. Horses appear throughout my work as symbols of wild energy, resistance, and the desire for release: the wind of escape, of health regained, of a freedom that always feels simultaneously near and unreachable.
This duality death and life, despair and defiance, captivity and the possibility of rebirth forms a double-faced mirror through which I explore my own relationship with danger, hope, and the unknown.
I have held solo exhibitions in Tehran and in cities across the region and Europe, and I have participated in group exhibitions in Paris, London, Stuttgart, Saint Petersburg, and Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Lebanon.
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