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Upcoming
After She Leaves
STPLN, Malmö, Sweden – A collaborative performative and visual reading by Ayda Pakzad Afshar and Hoda Arbabi, bringing together visual research, writing, archival traces and performance. Hoda will participate in person, while Ayda joins remotely.
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The Body Refuses to Remain
Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh - A collaborative installation and performance with Yasamin Rashidi, developed from one of the ongoing investigations within The Coveration of Eve.
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Recent
Borders
An ongoing collaborative research project by Ayda Pakzad Afshar, Hoda Arbabi, Yasamin Rashidi and Maunya Doroudi Moghadam, working across Scotland, Sweden, England and Norway. Exploring borders as geographical, bodily, linguistic and social experiences, the project uses the exchange and transformation of artistic material across visual practice, performance, writing and research as both its subject and methodology.
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Cove Park Autumn Micro Residency
Cove Park, Scotland - An exploration of spatial collage, extending earlier research into the traces left behind by an absent body. Experimenting with how images and fragments might move beyond a fixed surface, forming changing relationships through space, light and the presence of a living body.
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Research Edition 01 - Hospitalfield 2026
Refusal to Remain Visible · Creativitism - An artist publication documenting the first stage of research developed during the Hospitalfield residency, bringing together visual notebooks, experimental works and questions emerging from the investigation.
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Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency
Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland - Two weeks of image-based research, collage and spatial experimentation, developing Refusal to Remain Visible, an investigation within The Coveration of Eve into the possibility of leaving an image and the traces left behind.
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APR 2026
Can the Future Be Saved? — Publication Edition
Creativitism - A publication extending the international digital exhibition, bringing together the participating artists' projects and their different approaches to imagining possible futures.
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Archive
Can the Future Be Saved?
Curator & Participating Artist ·Creativitism - An international digital group exhibition exploring how artistic imagination and collective creativity might open up different ways of thinking about the future.
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Self-Ending
Shamis Gallery, Tehran, Iran - An exhibition of paintings and performance exploring psychological and emotional states through the body and figurative imagery.
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AUG 2023
Does the Unconscious Appear in Works of Art?
Shamis Gallery, Tehran · Part of Self-Ending - A public discussion accompanying my solo exhibition, bringing together perspectives from philosophy, psychotherapy and art to explore the relationship between the unconscious and artistic expression.
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The Art of Improvisation
Blue House, Gilan, Iran - A live encounter between painting, movement and improvised music, concluding with the audience taking fragments of the painted fabric.
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SAAYESHGĀH (The Abrasion Clinic)
Co-curator & Artist · Hamin Creative House, Shiraz, Iran
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Artworkless Effect
Co-curator & Artist · Hamin Creative House, Shiraz, Iran
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