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Shadia Nilforoush

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  • Selected Works
    • ...a Gentle Woman, 2022
    • Labor of Possibility, 2022
    • Mother of the Blueness, 2020
    • Tea Time with Baba, 2018
    • Ancestral Clean-up, 2018
    • Moving under the Current of Silent Waves, 2018
    • Makhloot, 2017
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    • Woman/Body/Tea, 2020
    • Garden of Salt, 2020
    • Domestic Choreography, 2019
    • Masala as Metaphor, 2019
    • Flat Force, 2019
    • Transmission, 2018
    • Rosewater for Jummah, 2018
    • One Hundred Hairs, 2017
    • Dorageh, Two-Veined, 2014
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    • works on paper, canvas, mixed media
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Garden of Salt

Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Size: 13” x 19” / 19” x 13”

In Garden of Salt I use stillness and material residue to consider how memory takes form when the body is still and the world recedes. These archival pigment prints, made during the quiet of the COVID‑19 quarantine, surface moments of attention to subtle texture, material trace, and bodily presence. The garden here becomes both site and metaphor, a landscape of remembrance where salt, touch, and light register private histories, inherited gestures, and the daily negotiation between inner life and outward form. In this series, the body becomes a place of sedimented experience, where the sensuous and the spiritual intermingle, inviting reflection on how we carry and transform what we’ve been given, even when motion ceases and time feels suspended.