Sahar        Tarighi

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Wood, fabric, mirror, joint compound, stuffing, tape

2023| Size: Variable

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This piece is part of an ongoing conversation within my practice, alongside work "Bear the Burden of Borders".​

In this installation, I envision the Kolber’s bag as an extension of their body—a window that reveals their emotions, fears, uncertainties, traumas, and, at the same time, their resistance. The pain, the intestines, and the braids rupture the back of the bag, spilling onto the ground. The bag becomes a threshold—a fragile container unable to hold the immense emotional and physical weight it is forced to carry. It is bordered by a red line that outlines the body, the land, and the border.

Throughout this body of work, I return to the Kurdish body and land as repositories of trauma and endurance—where grief, memory, and political violence are not distant abstractions but deeply lived realities. This work is a refusal to forget. It speaks to the Kurdish body not only as a site of oppression but as a vessel of resistance, knowledge, and survival. 

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