By Jila Mannani

In Embodied Memories, the body becomes a vessel of time — a fragile archive where love, loss, and longing are inscribed beneath the skin. Each painting breathes between presence and absence, tracing the silent language of what the body remembers when words fail. Through layered textures of acrylic, collage, and wax, I seek the tenderness within erosion — the pulse that survives beneath the ruins of memory. These figures are not portraits; they are echoes — quiet witnesses of what we carry, even when we believe we have left it behind.