Anali Taherian
Anali Taherian is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores memory, identity, and the emotional dimensions of human experience. Drawing from personal history, family photographic archives, and lived experience, she creates works that move between representation and psychological space, transforming familiar images into layered reflections on perception, remembrance, and belonging.
Working across painting, drawing, and mixed media, Taherian investigates the ways in which memory is constructed, fragmented, and reimagined over time. Her compositions often blur the boundaries between portraiture and abstraction, using color, gesture, and materiality to evoke emotional states rather than fixed narratives. Through this approach, she creates visual environments in which personal and collective histories intersect.
Originally from Iran and now based in the United Kingdom, Taherian's work is informed by experiences of cultural displacement, transition, and adaptation. Her practice reflects an ongoing engagement with questions of presence and absence, intimacy and distance, and the relationship between individual memory and broader cultural narratives.
Through a poetic and introspective visual language, Taherian invites viewers to engage with the complexities of memory, emotion, and identity, creating spaces for reflection that resonate across personal and collective experiences.