"Based on the context in which I grew up, I am unconsciously obsessed with having the legitimacy of veiling and unveiling myself."
Artist: Narges Aqamiri
Project: Tactile Echoes
Drawing from the experience of being a woman born and raised in a religious patriarchal family and society, in Iran, she explores the concepts of identity, body and lived experience, with its social relations and historical contexts, through the use of photographic language.
Working mostly with self-portraits as a means of self analysis and dreaming, she seeks to understand the relationship between gender as an imposed norm, and space as an easily interfereable phenomenon, while probing the delicate balance between past and present, memory and movement.
"A series of reproduced archival self-portraits and images, combined with different layers, such as prints, stone and oyster. The photographs reflect the interplay of a deep-seated memory of concealing and unveiling oneself that resonates within me. Based on the context in which I grew up, I am unconsciously obsessed with having the legitimacy of veiling and unveiling myself, with a complex interplay of cherishing it as a safe zone, a part of my history and identity. And at the same time resisting it when it is imposed on me. Such complex paradoxical feelings reflected in my images have shaped a part of my reality throughout these years."
© Narges Aqamiri
Editor: Kiko