Heravi, Saba

I create drawings that are an investigation of self into the complexities of womanhood and the impossible definition of femininity. I create a universe made up of fantastical stories and folktales inhabited by women. My subjects are frequently born of personal experience or everyday events, and they are rooted in the fact that I attended an all-girls school. Like myself, my characters are in the midst of self-investigation, and as a result, there is an absence of noise in their worlds. They are going through emotional allegories that don't have a conclusion. These women are engaged in dark, playful, and strange acts in a very relaxed way as if nothing unusual is happening. In each work, these women are dealing with a challenge that I am faced with or have encountered before. Some are based on my childhood, and others are everyday struggles. I choose to talk about my prodigious, unconscious memory, and I alter specific passages of my life and cling to others. I try to use this memory to rebuild my identity.