Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian

Tirdad Hashemi – Champagne Shower, 2014

Ink and pastel on cardboard. Private collection

Tirdad Hashemi – Do you wanna join?, 2015

Acrylic on canvas, Paris Musées / Musée d’art moderne

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – Only your presence makes me bear the Berlin trains, 2021

Oil pastel on paper. Private collection

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – All the flowers that you planted in the back yard, All died when you went away, 2023

Mixed media on paper. Courtesy gb agency

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – Caviar Dreams, 2021

Mixed media on paper. Collection Frac Île-de-France

Tirdad Hashemi – As we start moving our fear will vanish, 2022

Acrylic, clay and sand on stretched canvas. Collection FRAC Alsace, Séléstat

Tirdad Hashemi – Nous n’avons rien à perdre que nos chaînes, 2022

Mixed media and acrylic on paper. Collection FRAC Alsace, Séléstat

Tirdad Hashemi – You danced on the dead bodies of the people you killed, 2022

Mixed media and acrylic on paper. Collection FRAC Alsace, Séléstat

Tirdad Hashemi – Untitled, 2022

Mixed media on canvas, private collection. Collection particulière

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – Pink flowers blossom Fearless on my breath, 2023

Mixed media on paper, collage. Courtesy gb agency

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – Hold my hand while everything blows away, 2023

Mixed media on paper, collage. Courtesy gb agency

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – Beyond labels, beneath the surface, 2023

Mixed media on paper, collage. Courtesy gb agency

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – The history of our childhood traumas is even drier than Berlin weather, 2021

Mixed media on paper. Courtesy gb agency

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – Surviving the darkness, 2023

Mixed media on paper. Courtesy gb agency

Tirdad Hashemi – There were left only some flames between us, 2020

Oil pastel on paper. Private collection

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – The safest place to find is behind you, when I hide behind your hair, 2021

Mixed media on paper. Collection Olivier Diaz

Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian – In an ocean of fears, 2021

Mixed media on paper. Collection Olivier Diaz

The paintings and drawings of Tirdad Hashemi, who left Iran, tell stories that transcend borders — stories of openness to the world and to otherness. Hashemi works with oil pastels, coloured pencils and acrylics to record, diary-like, private and collective events, as well as emotional and political narratives. Convinced that art requires the presence of others, Hashemi often works with their partner Soufia Erfanian, another exile from Iran, to create four-handed works that enable them to express their feelings without the need for words. Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian’s works, drawn hurriedly and with minimal materials in the midst of today’s political turbulence, depict their daily lives and those of their friends in exile.