Selected writing and research on modern and contemporary art, material practice, identity and visual culture.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2026

Rethinking the Contemporary Art of Iran

Book review of Rethinking the Contemporary Art of Iran, edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan.

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2026.

DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2026.2664377

 

2023

The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary

Book review of Hamid Keshmirshekan, The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary.

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2023.

DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2023.2235866

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2013

Formation of a Different Medium of Perception

Visual research contribution developed through the Ideal Ego project, exploring memory, personal photographs, second-hand books and processes of layering.

The Luminary, Issue 3: Sleep(less) Bed, 2013.

Read publication → https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/luminary/issue3/issue3article1.htm

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CURRENT RESEARCH

To Assemble a Layered Self: Collage and Image Transfer as Material Strategies of Identity

Article currently under review.

The research examines collage, image transfer, fragmentation and reassembly as material strategies through which identity, memory and accumulated experience are constructed and negotiated.

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The Tehran Biennials as Institutional Frameworks for Modern Art in Iran, 1958–1966

Article currently under review.

The research examines the Tehran Biennials as institutional frameworks through which artistic production, cultural policy and ideas of modernity and national representation were negotiated between 1958 and 1966.

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DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Reviving Identity: An Investigation of Identity in Iranian Artworks in the Period 1958–1966 in Relation to a Contemporary Fine Art Practice

Practice-based PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

The research examines cultural identity through the Tehran Biennials of 1958–1966 alongside a contemporary studio practice, bringing historical and archival research into relation with painting, drawing, collage and image-based processes.

View thesis → https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/86312/

 

RESEARCH PROFILE

ORCID
0009-0009-1662-9747

View ORCID profile → https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1662-9747