Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line

Through photographs and moving image works, Iranian-born, Melbourne-based Hoda Afshar examines the politics of image-making. Deeply researched yet emotionally sensitive, her work can be seen as a form of activism as much as an artistic inquiry. Afshar uses the camera to give visibility to those who have been denied it, resolutely insisting on the humanity of her subjects. She makes us contend with violence and brutality, not through blunt imagery but through evocation. Her work is anchored in empathy yet also radical in the way it wrestles with injustice.

Hoda Afshar, Untitled #4, from the series ‘In turn’ 2023, pigment photographic print, 169 × 128cm. © the artist. Courtesy the artist, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and UQ Art Museum, Queensland

UQ Art Museum
16 July to 14 December 2024
Queensland

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