Artist Statement:

Born in 1998, Yasamin Khadembashi is an Iranian-Australian multidisciplinary artist living and working on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia). Working across sculptural painting, installation, textiles, and mixed media, her practice interrogates the political construction of the body through diasporic, queer feminist, and anti-colonial frameworks.

 These works are informed by the 2022 Women Life Freedom movement in Iran and respond to the ongoing gendered violence and repression enforced by the Islamic Republic regime. They also speak to the escalating threats of war and destruction impacting Iran’s people, land, and future. Through materially rich, textural surfaces, Khadembashi honours the resilience of the Iranian people and their continued struggle for liberation, holding space for both grief and resistance.