PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN UNFINISHED INVENTION

Photography was born between science and imagination. Before becoming a language of evidence and documentation, it belonged to a longer history of light, apparition, illusion and the desire to make visible what escapes us.

My practice returns to this unresolved territory.

Through photographic objects, altered surfaces, installations and constructed spaces, I revisit photography as a field where different possibilities of seeing and believing remain open.

Working from the material and historical conditions of photography, I am interested in the moments where certainty gives way to uncertainty, where an image is not only proof of the world but a reflection of how we imagine it.

Biography

Bahar Shoghi (b. 1983, Tehran) is a French Iranian artist working with photography, objects and installations.

Before developing her artistic practice, she worked as a journalist and documentary filmmaker, a background that shaped her relationship to images and their claims to truth.

Her current work moves away from photography as documentation to investigate its material, historical and imaginary dimensions.

Selected Exhibitions & Residencies

2025 Décalé Horanggasy Creative Studio Gwangju, South Korea Residency-end solo exhibition

2025 Horanggasy Creative Studio Artist Residency Gwangju, South Korea

2024–2025 Photagogia with Armen Ter‑Mkrtchyan Aha Collective Gallery Yerevan, Armenia Curated by Nairi Khatchadourian

2024 Our Time Institute of Contemporary Art Yerevan × ArtNexus Swedish Art Grants Committee Programme Yerevan, Armenia

2021 Fabbrica Culturale Casell’arte Documentary Writing Residency Corsica, France

2019 De l’écriture à l’image Documentary Writing Residency Saint‑Quirin, France