Darya Vaezi

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Artist statement

Artist Statement I am interested in forms that outlive the worlds that first gave them meaning. Vessels, architectural geometry, poetry, script and symbolic objects move through my practice as carriers of histories that are never entirely past. As an Iranian artist living in London, I encounter this visual language through both intimacy and distance: it belongs to the culture that formed me, yet displacement has made it possible to question it anew. I work across glass, ceramics, metal and mirror, transforming inherited forms rather than preserving them. A vessel can become a body divided by distance; a lock can reveal a history while refusing access to what it contains; Persian poetry can dissolve into geometry; a fracture can remain visible after repair. Through these transformations, I explore how personal experience enters collective memory, and how histories of migration, restriction, resistance and loss continue to inhabit the present. Glass has become central to this language because it resists certainty. It can expose and conceal at once, hold physical weight while appearing fragile, and allow what is present and what is absent to remain visible together. I use these contradictions to create objects that ask to be encountered from more than one position. I do not return to Iranian cultural memory in search of an intact past. I return to ask what survives its movement through time, distance and rupture, and what these inherited forms are still capable of becoming.

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