Born and raised in Iran, visual artist Maryam Tafakory makes textual and filmic collages that bring together poetry, speculative nonfiction, and archival material. Exploring the different registers through which images speak, her work attempts to dissect veiled acts of erasure—of bodies, intimacies, and histories. Her research-based projects consider what is often neglected and discarded as trivial or excessive. Her ongoing body of films and performances stays in dialogue with post-revolution Iranian cinema.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, Locarno, MoMI New York, Pergamon Museum Berlin, M HKA, and Anthology Film Archives, amongst others. She was awarded the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, the Tiger Short Award at IFFR Rotterdam, the Barbara Hammer Feminist Film Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Best Experimental Film Award at Melbourne International Film Festival. She was the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.
