I’m Judi Hesami, a Kurdish-Iranian visual artist from Sanandaj, now based in London. My work begins with a question: how do we shape our own way of being in a world that continually shapes us, and draw closer to others without reducing their mystery to what we can see and understand?
I work across photography, film and moving image, moving between observation and constructed scenes. A hand at work, a body at a doorway, a gathering, or an object left behind can draw me towards another person’s experience. I’m interested in what these encounters allow me to see, and in what remains beyond my reach.
My experience as a woman shapes how I look, what I notice and the stories I choose to tell. Through a female perspective rooted in my own life, I seek to reimagine familiar ways of seeing the body, everyday life and the world around me. Women’s experiences run through this inquiry, opening onto wider questions of care, agency, identity and belonging.
I return to presence, absence and distance: in care and labour, in loss and return, and in the ways we inhabit spaces together. Through these particular experiences, I explore what it means to live alongside others.
I hold a bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication. My background spans independent artistic practice and collaborative work in photography, animation, theatre and film, alongside art direction and production management. These experiences continue to shape how I make, look and listen.