Stones explores the loss of language as one of the ramifications of globalization, colonization and immigration and, speaks of the melancholic longing for it, bodily and materially. This work is an embodiment reflection on my experience of living and working as a woman in Iran and a woman of colour in Canada. For the creation of this work, eleven stones from various sites and places of Iran were collected and taken to Vancouver. Each stone represents one kind of silence based on the context of it. For example Chosen Silence from my mother's back yard or Oppressive Silence from Golestan Palace in Tehran. Through the process of slip casting, stones were replicated. Each replica is a shell, an empty body resembling a form in the space. It speaks of an embodied form of resistance, and resilience.
سَنْگْ هايِ تو خاٰلي
Exhibition Catalogue
Ceramics, 2019.