Hadis Bahrami
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Hadis Bahrami (b. 1989, Iran) is a New York–based painter. Across twenty-five years of practice she has developed an original, self-built technique — layering oil and mixed media with a handmade tool into a woven topography that draws on the structural grammar of Persian rugs and the narrative logic of Persian miniature painting. Her work examines memory, identity, and endurance: what the body and the landscape continue to hold after rupture.
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Technique
An original, self-developed process: each surface is built by hand with a handmade tool into a woven topography in oil and mixed media — drawn from Persian textile and miniature traditions, held between beauty and damage, memory and erosion.
Statement
Hadis's works are defined through two realms — inner conflict and outer conflict: the place where the body has endured something and still holds its trace. Even as she works with vivid color and a careful attention to beauty, her deeper insistence is on meaning. Rather than representing the event itself, Hadis paints its psychological residue — the mark it leaves behind — something every person meets, in some form, in ordinary life.
And yet life does not stop. We are bound to move forward, and living continues. These works are the account of a loss that has been neither fully buried nor accepted — a loss that still runs through the fabric of life and breathes within it.
Perhaps art is the last place where the psyche can hold its wound, without pretending to be well.