Badri Valian as a professional contemporary artist has been working on numerous creative art projects commissioned by art collectors, private businesses as well as art galleries over the years. Her main focus of interest has been the human body as she sees it, inspired by her unique imagination of its characteristics when viewed in a motionless angle. In the last few years she has transformed her creations to human bodies in motion and in a never ending fluid travel in time and space.
In 2017, Badri presented her work of obsessively human-figure-centered art as a performance project called “39 Silence” as a vehicle to release and liberate her physical energy through extreme activities such as whole day jumping on a trampoline or sprinting, sometimes for several days. During this period she would paint to produce patterns released from her dark inner memories of childhood, which, surprisingly, appeared as pleasant and colorful marks on canvas.
A year later, in 2018, she recorded long and repetitive conversations with herself on her cell phone and making confessions in front of a mirror. She found this to be therapeutic, gradually weakening the bitterness of memories engraved on her soul. She discovered this could be an effective way for all women who have been sexually abused or assaulted over the years to release their dark inner emotions and, in the process, cleanse their spirits of hurt, shame, guilt, and filth.
