Baharan Eghbalzadeh is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher from Iran. She is based in Berlin. She works across new media, performance and critical writing. Her work looks at grief, cyberbodies, diasporic memory, resistance, and the politics of displacement and belonging. She often uses archival material and digital spaces to ask how memory is mediated, fragmented and rebuilt.
Her background is in dramatic literature and new media design. Her works include the installations To the Goddess of Belonging and The Nonhuman Witness and the performance Celebration of Ashes. She also teaches at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin, in the Art and Design faculty. Her courses cover nonfiction narratives, performativity, media theory and academic writing.
Body-sick is her photo essay about the body, illness and displacement. In it she writes about her move from Iran to Berlin, which happened during the pandemic. She photographs her own body and pairs the images with objects, such as a pomegranate, and with texts. Some of the photographs were made in Iran before she left, and some in Berlin.
