She, in apostraphe

In this work, the artist distills the act of visibility and erasure into a stark, minimal frame: only the eyes emerge from a field of white, marked by calligraphic strokes that recall both script and wound.

The work embodies a paradox: it invites reading while withholding clarity. This refrain echoes through the piece, suggesting that the act of looking at a Muslim woman is always shaped by projection, misreading, or incompleteness. Both revelation and apostrophe - hyper-read, yet profoundly unread.

At once fragile and confrontational, the piece speaks to the politics of seeing and being seen: how women are simultaneously erased and hyper-visible, silenced yet constantly interpreted. Rather than offering clarity, she, in apostraphe insists on opacity as resistance, allowing absence to carry presence, and incompleteness to become a form of wholeness.

Shooting team:

@Highkeyflair studio

@aidan.at