Bodies, individually or in groups, are cutout from collected family photographs. What remains are fragments of place; intimate: a bed, a dining table, a living room, a backyard – or in public: a classroom, a bridge, a brick road. Absent from captured moments of celebrations or identification portraits, these silhouettes of the invisible hover over the spaces they once occupied, tracing the outlines of their remembrances within layers of time, stranding together new narratives of belonging. 

Taraneh Hemami explores themes of displacement, preservation and representation working with works with materials of history, organizing archives, collecting images, transforming data and information into timelines, patterns, maps and installations that draw connections between contradictory narratives.