Artist and photographer. Born in 1993, originally from moshav Haniel in Emek Hefer, now residing in Tel Aviv. Focusing on photography, mixed media, and writing. 

 

I grew up in a meticulously maintained home of dominant women, with a symbiotic bond with my mother. My parents and family emigrated from Iran during the Islamic Revolution. 

My father, an independent engineer, left a religious home at the age of 17 and came to Israel for Zionist reasons, changing his last name to "Dror." My mother, an educational psychologist, left Tehran as a student and entered the unfamiliar Israeli academia. The end of their lives there and the beginning anew here, integrating the family unit into society, and the conflicts that arose from this transition have profoundly shaped my identity and worldview.

 

The poetic Persian language is the foundation of my perspective on life and the images within it. I was raised by a language of emotions, words, sounds, tastes, colors, and scents that were different from my surroundings. The enclosed culture within the walls of our home attempted to assimilate into the "moshavnik" mold outside, striving to become a "good Israeli family." I remember myself in the midst of this tension as a child in a limbo of dreams, the subconscious, and the essence of the soul. These themes have always intrigued me and called me to observe them.

 

In recent years, I have been formulating a language of images and symbols, creating a mental picture that feels the pain and takes responsibility for it. The photographs are the result of work with my body and my close surroundings; the family archive, organic materials, and remnants of life I collect and gather. Through all these, I explore power dynamics, social issues, and the boundaries of identity and gender. The body, for me, is a home, the home is a conflict and a creative center, a field through which I think, act, and understand the world.

 

The family unit is charged with a history and heritage of pain, escape, survival, identity, rebellion, and duality. The feminine and the masculine are intertwined, and a struggle unfolds between them. The masculine symbols are presented in vulnerable, soft humanity. The feminine symbols reclaim the ancient, repressed wildness and freedom. The creative process returns to the instinctive feminine nature, pulsating with a personal internal rhythm of life/death/life. 

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The camera is a tool that allows me to merge with reality and capture the "decisive moment". That moment holds within it the power and instills the healing, with which I seek redemption and solace from the pain.

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