The project

How do you reconstruct a body that a system has systematically erased, when all that remains is collective memory?

Faded Bodies is an interdisciplinary installation in six parts: a series of paintings; a life-sized figure in handmade paper; a document-based installation; ceramic sculptures; a single-channel video; and a durational performance.

The project responds to systematic violence and the erasure of bodies, using radiological imagery as a language for absence and collective memory. In development; proposed for exhibition 2028–2029.

An installation in six parts.

Studies

Research and development, 2026. Left to right: the first of the 206 pieces; skull, frontal study; Vestige (study); The Silent Loop, video still.

Credits

Concept and all works: Fataneh Rahaghi

Video (camera, editing): Adytya Sikka

Email: fatanehrahaghi@gmail.com