As an Iranian woman in a voluntary exile, my work centers on the body as a site of resistance; where personal and collective histories collide. Working across photography, performance, sculpture, and installation, I 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 and psychological pressure.
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.