Soraia Khawari (b. 1995) is a visual artist working with photography to explore identity, migration, memory, and inherited narratives. Her practice is rooted in a life lived between Afghanistan, Iran, and Norway — three cultural landscapes that continue to shape her understanding of belonging, femininity, and selfhood.
Across her projects, she investigates how migration moves through generations, not only as a geographical shift, but as a lived and embodied condition. She is particularly interested in how displacement leaves subtle traces in posture, gesture, domestic space, silence, and intergenerational relationships between women.
Through family archives, re-photographed materials, portraiture, and staged contemporary images, she constructs visual conversations between past and present. Her work often centers on three generations of women within her own family, tracing how inherited histories are preserved, transformed, and renegotiated across time and place.
Rather than searching for a singular identity, her practice embraces the layered and shifting nature of belonging. She approaches the “in-between” not as absence or fragmentation, but as a complete and generative space — a site where multiple cultural narratives coexist and reshape one another.
Instagram:@soraiakhawari
E-mail: soraia.khawari@hotmail.com