In this chapter of her artistic journey, Hadieh Afshani embraces a transformative self-love that reflects an evolving sense of identity. Her work celebrates the body as a site of care, endurance, and nourishment—the body that has carried, protected, and sustained life. It honors the intimate relationship between self-acceptance and creativity, revealing the quiet resilience found within vulnerability.
Afshani’s decades of experience shape her method, which begins with a loose and transparent approach. Working with ink and layered materials on wood panels, she welcomes accident and unpredictability as integral parts of the process. Each mark carries its own history, and each layer unfolds over time, allowing imperfection to remain visible rather than concealed.
Throughout the series, the body emerges as both a physical and emotional home—an interior space shaped by devotion, memory, and care. Architectural elements and repeated gestures reinforce this sense of shelter and becoming, while gestures of nurture connect the body to a broader idea of hope. In these works, the body is not only a vessel of life, but a living structure through which love, continuity, and future possibility take root.