Maryam Palizgir

This series explores the instability of perception through the interaction of light, shadow, and layered material surfaces. Photographed during the fleeting moments of golden hour, flowers and domestic objects are viewed through window screens, lace curtains, and translucent barriers that act as optical filters rather than neutral frames. These mediating surfaces generate moiré patterns, visual interference, and subtle distortions that disrupt conventional spatial relationships.

Throughout the series, shadows appear detached from their sources, emerging in front of the objects rather than behind them. This perceptual inversion unsettles distinctions between foreground and background, surface and depth, presence and absence.

Working with the transitional qualities of golden hour, the photographs register light as both subject and material, an active force that continually shapes, dissolves, and reconfigures form. The resulting images occupy a liminal space where objects, shadows, and reflections coexist as unstable traces, inviting a reconsideration of how vision is mediated and how reality is assembled through acts of looking.