Meher Afroz Vahid’s works are attuned to the sensory as a point of origin, often closing in on the nascent and transitory stages of development. Vahid’s work spans across video, photography, collage, painting, text, sculpture and installation, documenting the complex structures of existence. Taking into account the daily and immediate environment, the migration of cultures and the changing face of the present land, she speaks of the layers that make up a body.
Opening up through these layers, she collects and expands upon the brief, fertile-fragile stages of being – painting blobs of frozen blood formed on plastic used to store meat in the domestic realm waiting for consumption, noticing a crushed red candy on the floor that evokes a flesh-like image, existing for former years of chilhood, or looking closely at the tender flesh of fish with ripple-like muscle formations that are dense in collagen which inevitably diminishes with age. These instances speak of formation—formation of a distinct kind—while questioning the possibility of altering the existence of a body, at the same time, the occurrence of a total collapse or dissolution, like a salt rock placed beneath a drip of water.
Meher Afroz Vahid 