Hoda Zarbaf

  • I'm becoming
  • I'm always missing out on something
  • I'm incomplete
  • I'm playing in god's workshop
  • I'm home
  • I'm confused by art
  • I'm an image
  • I'm exposed to inconveniences
  • I'm homesick
  • I'm drunk with my own prophecy
  • I'm metaphorically sad
  • I'm my mother
  • I'm more than this
  • I'm present
  • I'm used to you
  • I'm badly bored
  • I'm destroying an idea right now
  • I'm ephemeral
  • I'm like an empty cookie box
  • I'm confused by love
  • I'm uniquely unsatisfied
  • I'm in doubt
  • I'm longing for you
  • I'm bored
  • I'm in a pirate's dream
  • I'm addicted to love
  • I'm a dead star
  • I'm absent
  • I'm misunderstood
  • I'm being born
  • I'm you
  • I'm the empty space inside words
  • I'm orgasming
  • I'm melancholic
  • I'm in debt
  • I'm a poem, and a lost tigress
  • I'm better than you
  • I'm under--appreciated
  • I'm yearning for my home
  • I'm home
  • I'm giving sweet birth
  • I'm slowly finding my way out
  • I'm shooting flowers outta my vagina
  • I'm obsessed with prettiness
  • I'm ever-changing
  • I'm exhausted
  • I'm my body
  • I'm a deranged raven craving empathy
  • I'm becoming deserving of your love
  • I'm in therapy
  • I'm changing
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Work

  1. Detail: the giant red rose at the top of the sculpture, its petals filling the frame.Solo exhibitionHoney, I am home!2020 · Dastan+2 Gallery, TehranCurated by Sanam SamanianInstallation view, Honey, I am home!, Dastan+2, Tehran, 2020Installation view, Honey, I am home!, Dastan+2, Tehran, 2020A sculpted hand holding a phone, Honey, I am home!, 2020
  2. Detail: a long lock of dark hair hanging from the end of a green stem.InstallationAnti-home2020 · Darbast Gallery, TehranCurated by Elnaz Tehrani + Anahita RazbollahInstallation view, Anti-home, Darbast Gallery, Tehran, 2020Installation view, Anti-home, Darbast Gallery, Tehran, 2020Installation view, Anti-home, Darbast Gallery, Tehran, 2020
  3. Detail: a pink hand gripping a curled metal rod beside the green stem.Solo exhibitionwe’re image making machines2018 · Aaran Gallery, TehranCurated by Sanam SamanianBanana State of Being: A Social Imagery (The Atheist)Vanity: A Daily Confrontation, installation viewAvatar: A Passive/Aggressive Act, installation view
  4. Detail: a sleeping mask face with blue lips and yellow eyelids, set in a metal crescent with a green leaf.Solo exhibitionFloral Compositions: Travellers of Time2016 · Aaran Gallery, TehranCurated by Sanam SamanianReaction Grade I/II: two plush pink panthers in clear boxes on a yellow cart with red wheelsA giant teddy bear covered in rose-print fabric hanging in the gallery, a small sculpture on a plinth behind itGreen stuffed fabric forms spilling from a red pot lettered in Persian, on a concrete block
  5. Detail: a smaller red rose on a side stem, with curled pink wire beside it.InstallationTransmutation2015 · Governors Island Art Fair, New YorkCurated by Sanam SamanianInstallation view, Transmutation, 2015Installation view, Transmutation, 2015Installation view, Transmutation, 2015
  6. Detail: a blue foot holding a black flag that reads “BOO!”, edged with small orange pompoms.Solo exhibitionSoft Souls2015 · Walnut Contemporary, TorontoCurated by Sanam SamanianA red velvet figure on a wooden chair, colourful stuffed fabric forms spilling to the floor, in front of the gallery windowA suspended platform with tangled neon-yellow fabric forms between a pink head and a dark blue headThe Mistress, her Baby and the Ejaculating Unicorn on a plinth, beside a fabric figure on a wooden chair
A tall sculpture by Hoda Zarbaf: a giant red rose on a long green stem that winds around a metal pole on a dark square base. Along it hang a smaller rose, a sleeping mask face with blue lips, a pink hand, a long lock of dark hair, two blue feet, and a black flag that reads “BOO!”.Solo exhibitionHoney, I am home!2020 · Dastan+2 Gallery, TehranCurated by Sanam SamanianInstallation view, Honey, I am home!, Dastan+2, Tehran, 2020Installation view, Honey, I am home!, Dastan+2, Tehran, 2020A sculpted hand holding a phone, Honey, I am home!, 2020InstallationAnti-home2020 · Darbast Gallery, TehranCurated by Elnaz Tehrani + Anahita RazbollahInstallation view, Anti-home, Darbast Gallery, Tehran, 2020Installation view, Anti-home, Darbast Gallery, Tehran, 2020Installation view, Anti-home, Darbast Gallery, Tehran, 2020Solo exhibitionwe’re image making machines2018 · Aaran Gallery, TehranCurated by Sanam SamanianBanana State of Being: A Social Imagery (The Atheist)Vanity: A Daily Confrontation, installation viewAvatar: A Passive/Aggressive Act, installation viewSolo exhibitionFloral Compositions: Travellers of Time2016 · Aaran Gallery, TehranCurated by Sanam SamanianReaction Grade I/II: two plush pink panthers in clear boxes on a yellow cart with red wheelsA giant teddy bear covered in rose-print fabric hanging in the gallery, a small sculpture on a plinth behind itGreen stuffed fabric forms spilling from a red pot lettered in Persian, on a concrete blockInstallationTransmutation2015 · Governors Island Art Fair, New YorkCurated by Sanam SamanianInstallation view, Transmutation, 2015Installation view, Transmutation, 2015Installation view, Transmutation, 2015Solo exhibitionSoft Souls2015 · Walnut Contemporary, TorontoCurated by Sanam SamanianA red velvet figure on a wooden chair, colourful stuffed fabric forms spilling to the floor, in front of the gallery windowA suspended platform with tangled neon-yellow fabric forms between a pink head and a dark blue headThe Mistress, her Baby and the Ejaculating Unicorn on a plinth, beside a fabric figure on a wooden chair