Memory Against Silence

Light triumphs over darkness

This page documents the public dissemination of an ongoing body of work responding to memory, grief, resistance, and collective experience connected to contemporary Iran.

Recent works explore themes of memory, grief, resistance, and collective experience in relation to contemporary Iran. Moving between abstraction and symbolic imagery, the paintings use fragmented forms, organic structures, layered textures, and repeated marks to reflect emotional and political tension. Elements such as entangled figures, and biomorphic shapes appear as visual traces of loss, pressure, survival, and remembrance.

Light triumphs over darkness

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

40* 60 inches

Immortal Blossoms II

Mixed Media on Canvas

20* 30 inches

Hamid Mahdavi

Acrylic and Ink on Unprimed Canvas

14* 38 inches

This painting refers to Hamid Mahdavi, a firefighter who carried a wounded protester on his shoulders during the protests in Iran. He could have escaped, but instead he chose to save another person. While he was running with the injured man, he was shot and died. The central figure represents that moment of sacrifice. The intense red paint suggests blood and violence, while the chaotic drips reflect the urgency of the streets during the protests. I also wrote the Persian line “Az khoon-e javanan-e vatan, laleh damideh,” which refers to the idea that from the blood of the youth of the homeland, new life and remembrance emerge.

Immortal Blossoms I (Iran)

Mixed Media on Canvas

40* 40 inches

Confinement – Group Exhibition

Merlins Cafe Bar, Martineau Place, Birmingham, UK

11–12 March 2026

Lion and Sun Flag

Gouache and Acrylic on Watercolour Paper

A3

Kahrizak: They Still Remain

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

40* 40 inches

Kahrizak, a recent painting responding to memory, violence, and collective trauma connected to contemporary Iran, will be presented in the upcoming Healing Arts Birmingham exhibition in June 2026.

All these works remain part of an ongoing act of witnessing.