Artist Statement
Sahar Askary’s artistic practice explores memory, displacement, and place through material, space, and collective experience. Working across installation, photography, video, and textile, she examines how personal narratives intersect with broader social and environmental contexts. Her work is grounded in slow, material-based processes. She often works with everyday and repurposed materials, treating them as sites of memory shaped by use, care, and time. More recently, she started experimenting with fermentation as both material and method. By engaging with its temporal, transformative qualities, she uses it as a way to think about preservation, decay, and the transmission of knowledge. Sahar’s installations invite reflection on belonging, loss, and continuity, approaching memory not as fixed or static, but as an ongoing process reshaped through interaction, material encounter, and collective ritual.
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