As a child of the Iranian Revolution I was taught to be a part of the “sacred” gender of woman guarding its body from the gazes of “immorality”, which has resulted in a strong awareness of my body.
As an artist living in London I am both fascinated and perturbed by the scale of alienation experienced in our everyday lives. This alienation is the result of living in a society where face-to-face human interaction is slowly becoming outmoded.  For me the physical body is a way of learning to locate and navigate within a physical space; it is one of the most primitive but essential ways of relating to each other and the physical world.
My work as an artist is an amalgamation of the “sacred” body of my childhood, and the “lost” body of my adulthood. Through my work I explore different ways of seeing the body; the sensual and sexual body; the abject body as described by Julia Kristeva;

‘Most of what is abject centres around the body- bodily waste, bodily fluid, blood, open wounds- these substances are disturbing as they threaten us by transgressing the bodily boundaries, dissolving the perimeters between inner/outer, living/dead and natural/supernatural. Introducing the in-between, the ambiguous and the composite space, abject is where borders, position and rules are not respected.’

Looking further into this idea, my work investigates the boundaries of the body and the ways of challenging these boundaries.