Ava Moradi’s practice explores the space between internal emotion and external form. Working primarily in oils, she creates biomorphic, often ambiguous figures that emerge from dreamlike or dystopian landscapes. These forms are not bound by anatomy, but echo its vulnerability, inviting a psychological and visceral response.

For Moradi, painting is both catharsis and confrontation. Her recent work engages with themes of absence, displacement, and memory, always with a sense of motion, of something shifting beneath the surface. She is drawn to the idea that painting can carry emotional weight without relying on linear narrative.

Each work begins intuitively, shaped by mood and atmosphere. Though abstract, the emotional core is grounded in lived experience, a tension between presence and absence, and the body as a site of memory.

Earlier in her practice, Moradi created work in direct response to the political and cultural climate of Iran, focusing on how systems of power fragment identity, suppress autonomy, and distort perception. She has also explored her own sense of identity as something tethered, pulled in conflicting directions by language, culture, and expectation. That feeling of being suspended between worlds continues to haunt her work today, emerging less through symbolism and more through form, atmosphere, and emotional residue.