Wedded Tissues

|The project was funded and curated by PersbookArt,

Created in a residency in Yazd, Curators of the project: Negar Farajiani+Neda Darzi |

Applying thrift shop pieces of clothings, found objects, synthetic hair, and old yarns, artist Hoda Zarbaf twist and stitch hard and soft materials to form an invasive large-scale colourful lump which mimic the progressive cancer cells; and although they present uncanny, they’re yet intimate, animated and pleasing to look at and interact with. 

Hoda Zarbaf’s sculptural compositions are usually made up of found items that have individual human traces in them; She therefore raises the issues of agony, melancholy along with memory, while simultaneously making the absence of the physical body appear as an empty space and irretrievable loss. 

Going through cancer experience and its post treatment in 2016, installation “the wedded tissues”, is the artist’s endeavour to recreate an alternative yet animated scenario of the invasion of undesired cancelous patterns. 

In Her current installation, while the projected video shows the human’s intervening with the progression of the these unwanted living forms, the installed birthday balloons reading “happy cells” ironically try to point out that every life feature is an inherent potential of growth; and albeit human-beings try to control nature to his favor, we’re yet helplessly per-forced to welcome the inhabitancy with life in all its feasible formation.