Carried Home

Carried Home brings together painting, print, wood, and textile works that reflect my experience as an Iranian artist in diaspora. Living far from Iran, I have come to understand home not only as a place, but as something carried through memory, pattern, material, and feeling. When return is uncertain, home becomes internal—preserved in fragments, gestures, and familiar forms.

Persian rug patterns appear throughout the exhibition as a visual language of memory and belonging. For me, these motifs are not only decorative; they are tied to domestic life, cultural history, and the intimacy of lived space. Printed and painted across cloth and wood, they become a way of rebuilding closeness across distance.

A central group of works, Time to Sleep, includes paintings of sleeping figures and turned wooden bed posts. In these pieces, sleep becomes a quiet space of peace and vulnerability. I often feel that all people look peaceful during sleep, no matter who they are or where they come from. This shared stillness is deeply important to me.

Other works in the exhibition include images of my father’s house, my parents, and a handwritten poem by Hafez, connecting family, architecture, and memory. Carried Home is about longing, but also about care, continuity, and the ways home can remain alive even when it must be carried from afar.