Ahmadi’s work in sculpture examines subconscious thought, transformative experiences, and the healing from personal and collective trauma. Her work engages with the suppressed aspects of the ego while exploring themes of alienation, power, and gender. Experiences of displacement from an early age have brought a profound encounter with the loss of cultural anchors, producing a complex and often confusing relationship to identity. This tension drives Ahmadi’s search for understanding through form and deliberate detachment, constructing fully realized, self-contained worlds where intimate and symbolic narratives unfold, ultimately forming her own evolving mythology.
Her sculptures operate as autonomous environments, governed by their own internal logic and grounded in recognisable human resonance, yet resistant to fixed interpretation. By concealing the materials from which they are made, the works become self-referential, existing within a world of their own rather than pointing back to their construction. Meaning is not delivered but activated through the viewer’s physical and perceptual engagement.
Ahmadi (b. 1993, Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan) is based in Berlin. She completed her BA at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2022) and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2021).