Meher Afroz Vahid’s work is attuned to the sensory as a point of origin, often focusing on the nascent and transitory stages of development. Vahid’s practice spans video, photography, collage, painting, text, sculpture, and installation, documenting the complex structures of existence. By attending to immediate, everyday environments, the migration of cultures, and the changing face of the present land, she speaks of the layers that constitute a body.
Her practice investigates the transitory and formative layers of existence, grounded in sustained observation of growth as both process and condition. Attentive to the immediate environment and broader social and cultural structures, she approaches change not as a singular event but as an ongoing, often slowed unfolding, where emergence takes shape through accumulation, shift, and dissolution.
In the studio, she plans to explore the body as a site of accumulation and fragility, extending this inquiry through a deeper engagement with material processes in relation to the landscape here. Using video, photography, sculpture, and installation, she traces subtle “lifelines” of movement and interaction, attending to how materials, gestures, and environments register gradual shifts over time. The studio will serve as a space to slow down, observe, and materialize these layered processes, expanding both the scale and intimacy of her ongoing investigations.