Talkhoun

Charcoal on paper

2016

 

Talkhoun takes its title from a story by Iranian writer Samad Behrangi, opening onto questions of inherited trauma, memory, gender, family, and social expectation. In this series of charcoal drawings, Talkhoun becomes a symbolic presence of self shaped by the tension between inherited narratives and the desire for transformation.

 

Figures emerge and recede through charcoal dust, shadow, and erasure, appearing unresolved and suspended between myth and lived experience. Through the material instability of charcoal, the series reflects on how trauma and memory are carried by the body, and how the self is formed through silence, obligation, resistance, and becoming.