I was born in Iran in 1980, just after the Islamic revolution, and grew up in Tehran. My family immigrated to Israel when I was nine years old, knowing we will never be allowed to return to Iran again. During my adolescence, I assimilated into Israeli society, but the experience of migration, transition, and disconnection is still present in my personal life and artistic practice.

In my drawings, paintings, and videos I find myself repeatedly constructing and deconstructing memories, patterns, colors, and shapes that have to do mostly with my childhood from Tehran. Most of my drawing series - such as Wallpapers, Mosque RAL Green Nights, Abbas, Khalili Sisters and Rugs are based on family albums and images found online of places in the Middle East that I cannot reach, as well as generic, orientalist representations of the Islamic and the middle eastern world.

In my recent practice, I find myself preoccupied with connecting my personal experience as an immigrant to urgent political and ethical issues. I see the migration of asylum seekers and refugees to Israel as another instance of movement which is a continuation of previous waves of immigration to this country. More generally, I explore the actions and notions of accessibility and free movement in relation to the dialectical development of the globalized world, namely, on the one hand, I consider the free movement of goods, services, and a limited number of people, and on the other hand, the fortified nations and communities, surrounded by separation walls and other barriers, abound with racism and fear.