Dear Freedom, a Praise to Forgiveness

After an intense research threw family archives and my own experience in this chore named family, My work enrolls a documentary approach of the female body representation and an intimate writing. I present you today a diary tending to deploy a time relation threw a photographic, literary and performative process.

Dear Freedom, a Praise to Forgiveness is the story of a young girl becoming a woman threw a hidden past and cultural heritage. Born from an iranian muslim mother and a Jewish father I tend to deconstruct an imposed subjectif feministic relation and transgenerational characters. I perform trapped in a bedroom turned into a theatre for my different roles. It is a fragmented story and a performance of physical behaviours as a tool for forgiveness.

I choose the book object to create a layered story and relate to the traditional diary. Different Temporalities, image categories and photographic medium cross and bind themselves together. They follow a sinuous line imitating a trip of the soul out of the body. I use mainly the selfportait for the feministic deconstruction. Cropping and twisting upside down the lecture of the pictures. Generated images from games devices are windows for fantasies while orientalist paintings reappropriation take a slightly new meaning. I articulate this story with different still life and archives for new meanings and contaminating the previous or following pictures. I aimed to go against this whole idea of privilege in photography. I was taught that images were a tool of massive communication for people who didn’t have the chance to communicate threw reading and writing.

Dear Freedom, a Praise to Forgiveness is an open diary and is an inaudible cry for all women and men of different landscapes and background. It is a speech of hope to whom may feel torn between its roots and an open door to a revival.

Here are a selection of 20 images out of a hundred of a 220 pages book.