Reincarnation is a self-portrait–based project shaped by the lived experience of migration and its psychological aftermath. Rather than framing migration as a single physical movement, the work approaches it as a continuous mental and emotional condition—marked by anticipation, anxiety, loss, and suspension. The images are created within the landscape of a salt lake, a site in gradual decline that functions simultaneously as a personal memory space and a symbol of erosion, rupture, and transformation over time.
Within this environment, the artist’s body becomes both subject and witness: a vulnerable presence inhabiting an unresolved state of belonging. The project resists closure and instead sustains the fundamental questions of Where do I belong? and Where is home? While grounded in a deeply personal experience, the work speaks to a collective, often silenced voice—one that resonates across generations and geographies, reflecting identities shaped by displacement, repetition, and prolonged uncertainty.
Salt-Lake Urmia/Iran