This work explores grief, witnessing, and the persistence of untold histories. The figures emerge from research into the experiences of those who have endured historical violence and continue to carry its traces through memory, the body, and testimony. Their presence evokes histories that may remain absent, fragmented, or overlooked. From an elevated viewpoint, the figures appear both as subjects being observed and as witnesses themselves.

Bayan Moradi is a Kurdish contemporary artist and figurative painter. With an earlier background in graphic design, she developed her painting and drawing practice independently as a self-taught painter. Working across painting, drawing, collage, ink and mixed media, her practice has evolved through expressionist approaches towards contemporary figurative painting. Her current practice explores the relationship between figures, environments, memory and lived experience, with an interest in how memory is carried, transformed and embedded in place. She has exhibited across London and the UK and undertaken commissioned projects. She is currently completing an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.