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I explore concepts of power, security, and social class, and the shifting boundaries between personal and public personas, space, and the human form in the rapidly evolving world. Through nonlinear, abstract, and ambiguous narratives, I envision new ways to understand identity, personal history, and social hierarchies—and how these elements may transform within fluid, intersectional, and dynamic landscapes.

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Through the layered imagery, I create a dreamlike sense of displacement, mirroring the unsettled, transient nature of our lives. I question the meaning of 'home,' exploring its role as both refuge and exposure in a world where personal and public realms increasingly blur.

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My process embraces visual contradictions, such as the tension between creation and destruction, and control and vulnerability. With an open-ended, intuitive approach, I allow transformations to unfold throughout the creative process, deconstructing and reconstructing images, layering collage, painting, and printmaking. This process creates an aesthetic where multiple narratives coexist in a paradoxical space, constantly shifting the relationship between past, present, and future.

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I explore the concept of home as a sanctuary and its ties to privacy, safety, power, memory, and personal history. Is home a refuge that both holds and conceals us? Is it a physical repository of time, memory, solitude, and personal identity? Does it establish boundaries between our private and public selves? Where does one end and the other begin? How does a space transition from private and intimate to communal and shared?

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Today, we spend much of our time in 'non-places'—spaces like computers and social media that French anthropologist Marc Augé describes as transitional, anthropological spaces where people remain anonymous, relating to one another in uniform routines. Here, social life exists in an artificial way, invading our personal space. But is our personal space truly private, or merely one of many? 

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My visual language draws inspiration from Persian painting, architecture, literature, and folk culture, along with influences from abstract expressionism, contemporary figurative art, digital imagery and the human experience within modern spaces, places, and non-places.

© 2024 by Sara Hassan Khani

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