Interview with Hadeyeh Badri

Interview with Hadeyeh Badri about her solo exhibition The Body Keeps the Score at Tashkeel in Dubai. “The Body Keeps the Score” by Hadeyeh Badri explores the intimate and personal account of losing her late aunt, Shahnaz Badri. The body of work started as an act of commemoration with Badri safekeeping her late aunt Shahnaz Badri's belongings out of an innate fear that she would be forgotten. Observations from the hospital dominate some of Badri’s most cherished and at the same time, most dreaded memories. As her aunt’s primary caretaker at the hospital, she was witness to repeated waves of recovery and relapse, and eventually, as the doctors coined it, ‘deterioration’. “Language is insufficient when describing painful or traumatic experiences” says Badri. Read more and see images from the exhibition at http://tashkeel.org/exhibitions/the-body-keeps-the-score Exhibition dates: 13 April - 13 May 2017 (extended till 17 May 2017)