Roya combines thread and paper to create hundreds of tiny drawings and stitch these together into fragmented forms. Draped from the walls and suspended from the ceiling, their narratives focus on women’s social history and identity at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and class. The imagery of her work comes from Persian miniature paintings and collected images of different women’s movements on the Internet. Persian miniature is an Illustrating text, primarily classical Iranian literature, made of vivid gouache paint on paper. She modifies the miniatures by eliminating most colors, reforming the figures and sometimes their genders, and giving it a strong quality of line and textiles. She recreated many Persian miniatures along with the images of women’s movement by gluing thread on paper. After creating these drawings, She assembles them in fragmented pieces, stitched to each other by a thread to build up the work. Through the intersection of the women’s movement and individual experiences, she is creating bridges among individuals and raising questions about our identity and social history through the lens of gender, sexuality, and class. In her work, she uses fragmentation to encourage viewers to reflect on the body and its most intimate parts, inviting them to contemplate the sense of fragmentation.

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