The body holds what history tries to erase.
My work begins there.
In the tension between what is shown and what is suppressed, between presence and disappearance.
As an Iranian woman in voluntary exile, I move across photography, performance, sculpture, and installation, drawn to images that exist at the edges: overlooked, censored, at risk of vanishing.
I work with photography and archive, as a methodology to resist earsure and disappearance.
to contact me, email mahsaalafar@gmail.com .
My work centers on the body as a site where personal and collective histories collide. I use photography and archives, both found and personal, to deal with disappearance, censorship, and erasure. I am drawn to images on the edge, suppressed, overlooked, at risk of vanishing, and I push them into new material forms. Through rephotography, transfer, and physical processes, I track how images break down and shift over time, especially under political pressure. As an Iranian woman in exile, that distance shapes how I think about voice and authorship. I am trying to hold onto what is unstable, turning fragile images into something that can still carry memory and resist being erased.