Now showing at UQ Art Museum, "Hoda Afshar: A Curve is a Broken Line". The first major solo exhibition by one of Australia’s most innovative and unflinching photomedia artists.
Through her 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: A Curve is a Broken Line" is an Art Gallery of New South Wales touring exhibition.
