SOON THIS WILL BE OVER Sarabande Summer Group Show 2022 Artist Takeover with @birdsarenotforsale My current project examines gender representation in relation to the contemporary culture and beauty ideals imposed on Iranian women through cosmetic surgery. This project has allowed me to work in an interdisciplinary way moving from photography to sculpture and installation, expanding my artistic practice. This project started with investigative work where I impersonated a patient and made multiple visits to beauty clinics in Tehran. I made detailed reports of my observations as a patient. I used my phone to record the conversations that I had with doctors. These conversations eventually led me to 16th century medical drawings to understand the process of sculpting and altering facial features while imagining the role of the plastic surgeon as an artist. Through role play and the use of cosmetics and silicone masks made from adjusted casts of my own face, I went through multiple transformations to give a first-person’s account of how it feels to change.