My practice is a visual representation, a response to the outside world that projects onto us and the inner dialogue of my own abstractions. The photographs are an exploration of a human experience that changes with time, space and encounters. It is a manifestation of complexities that creates the self and the sphere she lives in. Therefore, each body of work is a form of visual research to decipher the objective and the subjective experience; a view of identity, culture, psychology of anxiety, and existence of things.
I experiment with still life by expressing emotion through entities as they are our source of symbolism and storyline. Theses ‘Things’ so voiceless dominate our world. They accumulate space unapologetically with their physical being and are a constant in their position unless consciously transformed. Either man-made or a product of nature, completely surround us and are a foundation that we humans rely upon. We like assert our superiority over them but our reliance is heightened by our needs of survival and those of pleasure.
Gilda Jabbari was born in Shiraz, Iran, but grew up in Dubai, UAE since the age of three. She is a Royal College of Art alumni, with a Master’s degree in Photography.
Based in London