Memory in Motion: The Art of Fa Razavi
Love London Gallery is excited to profile Fa Razavi (b. 1996, Bushehr, Iran), a multidisciplinary artist based in London whose poetic yet politically resonant work explores memory, identity, and displacement. Her personal history, shaped by both migration and cultural inheritance, weaves through her practice with delicate precision and a defiant sense of agency.
Trained in graphic design and sculpture in Tehran before earning a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University, Razavi’s approach is as fluid as it is intentional. Her installations, paintings, and performances oscillate between the intimate and the universal , inviting us to consider what we carry with us and what gets left behind.
In Opera Rose (Palo Gallery, New York, 2025), her work unfurled like a visual diary , raw, dreamlike, and cinematic. With Snakes and Ladders at The Bomb Factory, London, she moved between nostalgia and confrontation, examining the uneven terrain of belonging. Nothing to Be Shown (Hoxton Gallery) offered a reflection on silence and erasure, while Dancing on a Knife’s Edge (Wilder Gallery) balanced danger and grace in equal measure.
Across these projects, Razavi is not just chronicling her experience but creating portals through which others can engage with the complexities of migration, femininity, and historical memory. Her work often features recurring motifs : textiles, mirrors, borders, symbolic gestures that act as both artefacts and metaphors. There is often a tactile quality to her installations, an echo of domesticity, ritual, and the body.
In 2022, Razavi was awarded the prestigious Freelands Painting Prize, an acknowledgment of her commitment to visual storytelling that is both deeply personal and globally resonant. Her voice is part of a new generation of artists who understand that tenderness and resistance are not mutually exclusive.
By centring her lived experience while expanding its resonance to broader geopolitical and emotional landscapes, Razavi offers us work that is as much about looking inward as it is about reaching across borders.
As her practice continues to evolve, one thing remains constant: Fa Razavi does not ask for permission to be seen. She simply insists on presence: layered, luminous, and undeniably powerful.
