The title of the series In the exodus, I love you more is a quote from the poet Mahmoud Darwish.

Artist Biography
Hoda Afshar was born in 1983 in Tehran, Iran and lives and works in Melbourne. 

In her artwork, she explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making by working across photography and the moving-image. Afshar employs processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Afshar’s work to date considers the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement.

Recent exhibitions include: We Change the World, National Gallery of Victoria (2021); PHOTO International Festival of Photography, Melbourne (2021); Between the Sun and the Moon, Lahore Biennale (2020); Remain, University of Queensland Museum of Art (2019); Defining Place/Space, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego (2019) and Primavera 2018, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Her awards include: the National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize (2015), the Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art (2018), and the People’s Choice award of the Ramsay Art Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia (2021). Hoda is represented by Milani Gallery in Australia.