2010 - C Print
“In the Name of FREƎDOM” is a series spanning fifteen years, composed of photography, installation, and multimedia works that confronts the unsettling realities of oppression, injustice, and inequality that persist in many corners of the world. The first visual cue is in the title. The artist has created a visual antonym for “freedom” by rendering it with interlocking E’s to symbolize entrapment, encaged rights, and restrained voices.
The artist’s very name, Azadeh, means "free-spirited" in Persian, the language of a country she had to flee at an early age. Keenly aware of freedom’s regression and frailty she has created a body of work with a deep sense of social responsibility. This series invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage with the emotional and political weight of lived experiences—those silenced, displaced, or marginalized in the name of a higher power.
“In the Name of FREƎDOM” is a call to consciousness. It confronts the systems and structures that deny basic freedoms, asking viewers to reflect on their roles in the global struggle for justice. How much freedom is there really around the world? Who is it limited to? Is the country or group I’m affiliated to somehow complicit in any way? The series aims to break through apathy, challenge the viewer not only to witness, but to reflect, to feel empathy, and to hopefully act. It seeks to offer a platform for reimagining a world where freedom is not a privilege, but a shared right.
2010 - wire & cardboard
2012 - C Print
2011 - concept
2011 - concept
2010 acrylic & photos on wood board 31"x31" - 80x80 cm
2010 acrylic & photos on wood board 31"x31" - 80x80 cm
2010 acrylic & photos on wood board 31"x31" - 80x80 cm
2011 - concept
2011 - concept
2011 - concept
2011 - concept
Azadeh, the artist’s very name, is derived from the word “freedom” in Persian, the language of a people for whom the last decades have been devoid of it. The perennial lack of freedom suffered by people around the world inspired a new word: “freedom” spelled with interlocking E’s to symbolize encaged rights and restrained voices. This body of work uses mostly installations/sculptures and photography to depict this new iconography.
2011 - concept
Calling for the simultaneous pursuit of UN resolution 194 and Palestine gaining full statehood status and in so doing becoming country number 194.
2011 - concept
2025