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In the Exodus, I love you more

Artist Feature of Hoda Afshar

This work is about Iran – my Iran – and my relationship to my homeland: a relationship that has been shaped by my having been away; by that distance that increases the nearness of all the things to which the memory clings, and which renders the familiar… strange, and veiled. It is an attempt to embrace that distance and to turn it into a kind of seeing. To let what is both there and not there shine through the surface. To let the surface speak. It is an attempt to explore the interplay of presence and absence in the history of Iran and in Iranians’ lives, and to discover the truth that lies there in their never-ending meeting, in-between.

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Hoda Afshar

Hoda Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran, and is now based in Melbourne, Australia, where she practices as a visual artist. She completed a Bachelor degree in Fine Art–Photography in Tehran and began her career as a documentary photographer in 2005. She is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Art at Curtin University, and a lecturer at Photography Studies College in Melbourne.

Through her photographic practice, which tests the boundaries between staged and documentary photography, Hoda reflects on issues related to representation, displacement, and identity politics. Her artwork aims to open lines of communication in a world both homogenized by global economy and unsettled by mass migration.

Since 2007, Hoda’s work has been widely exhibited both locally and internationally and published online and in print. She is the winner of the 2015 National Photographic Portrait Prize in Australia.