About

Art is the glue that keeps me connected, allows me to play, and expands my understanding. I think a lot about relationships, love, and feelings of longing and abandonment. The complexity of growing up in post-revolution Iran, living through the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, and navigating the heavy restrictions of that time—all while being raised in an Iranian-Colombian household—has deeply shaped my work. These experiences surface in my practice, sometimes overtly, sometimes as underlying tensions.

I see making art as a way of solving small problems, which gives me hope for bigger issues in life. My work is rooted in grids, repetition, and systems—structures that offer both stability and transformation. I explore games as a means of reconfiguring competitive dynamics, turning them into spaces of harmony, equity, and metamorphosis. Each project is an emotional escape and a challenge to visualize psychological and philosophical concepts.

For every piece, I choose a medium that best translates my ideas. Sometimes it’s my body, my voice, or my endurance. I have made work about capturing a sigh, telling dark secrets, punishing my tongue, and writing unreadable letters to my lovers. My practice is meditative yet subversive, always seeking hidden structures beneath the surface.