Ghazaleh hedayat biography template

In a series of photographs and assemblages produced between 2008 and 2019, Iranian visual artist Ghazaleh Hedayat (b. 1979) examines the body as a tactile object that can be acted upon.

This article explores a selection of her works in which she visually evokes a notion of the haptic, discussing how she challenges optical encounters with her art.

According to A Dictionary of Psychology, the haptic is a major form of touch “involving active exploration, usually by the hands”.¹ In her books Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media and The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, Laura U.

Marks draws on the concepts of embodiment and haptic to present a complementary approach for discussing contemporary cinematic and new media works. She argues the vision can be tactile, coining the term “haptic visuality”. L.

U. Marks contrasts this model with disembodied optical visuality, where the viewer maintains a distance between themselves a