Sahar        Tarighi

"Her Braids Bear the Borders"

Media: Ceramics, Wood, Yarn, Black diamond sand

Size: 107.67.45 in (the installation) - 40.27.25 in (the main ceramics sculpture)

Year: 2025

In this installation, I used ceramics to form two abstracted feminine, fragmented-recaptured figures. From their bodies—specifically their wombs and abdomens—long braids emerge and descend from their shoulders. The braids, an ancestral symbol of Kurdish femininity, hold memory, lineage, and the silent burden of generational stories. These intertwined forms reference the body as a site of labor, reproduction, and remembrance—a place where survival and resistance are physically carried. 

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This piece is part of an ongoing conversation within my practice, alongside works "Bear the Burden of Borders",  "Borders of Barriers: Barriers of Borders".

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