Survivor’s guilt places the individual in a state of suspension between presence and absence; a space where loss does not mark the end of presence, but rather its transformation into another form. In this series, the shadow, as the trace of something that is no longer present, extends along the boundary between loss and memory. The witness carries this continuation; holding what has been lost within memory and bringing it into the present. In this state, remembering is not merely a mental act, but an act of resistance against erasure; an attempt to preserve a presence that can no longer return. This series takes shape at the threshold between memory, loss, and presence; a space where remaining becomes, in itself, an experience of absence

Setayesh Sotoudeh Peima