Echoes of Humanity
Juried International Group Exhibition
Curated by: Anisa Mosaiebiniya
Artists: Zahraa Aqeel, Hadia Rizwan, Sudabeh Vatanparast, Setareh Khani, Shadi Mahmood Zada, Zahida Abdul Latif, Rasha Abo Zedan, Kimia Tavassoly, Rahimat Onize Shaibu
January 1th 2026
Virtual Exhibition,
London, United Kingdom
Echoes of Humanity is a group exhibition that brings together diverse artistic voices, each offering a personal and honest reflection on the contemporary human experience. Centered on themes of emotion, identity, memory, belonging, and disconnection, the exhibition explores the subtle and often unspoken layers that shape who we are.
Through painting, photography, and conceptual practices, the works reflect lived experiences of crisis, displacement, psychological pressure, and social tension, while also revealing resilience, transformation, and quiet endurance. Echoes of Humanity invites viewers to pause, feel, and recognize the shared emotional threads that connect individual stories into a collective human narrative across cultures and borders.
Zahraa Aqeel
Artist Statement:
childhood, to a time when I could not find a place for my voice amid the noise of war and crises. Everyone was busy; no one welcomed questions. We were only meant to listen.
Making art became a space for dialogue, evolving from childhood imaginings of the world into questions of belonging.
Do I truly belong to my home, my community, my country?
If so, why do I experience alienation within it?
I lived in only one room in this country,
Hadia Rizwan
Artist Statement
My work is inspired by everyday feelings that we all experience. I mostly use oil paints to create my paintings, trying to show real expressions and moments that can connect with people.
Through my art, I want to make viewers feel something natural and genuine, and remind them of the emotions we sometimes overlook in daily life.
Setareh Khani
Artist Statement
In a world where life is often measured by speed, productivity, and how visible we are, I use photography as a way to slow down and really look at things. These images come from everyday places and simple gestures. They are not just descriptions they try to capture the tension between human fragility and the quiet rhythm of daily life.
For me, a photograph is a place where time gathers. Traces of work, memory, and belonging remain on its surface faint and never completely clear, yet impossible to remove. By using distance, fragments, and a calm emotional tone, I try to approach these layers without turning them into a fixed story.
In this way, photography becomes less about showing reality and more about listening staying with what is small, peripheral, and unresolved. In the end, the images become a search for gentle signs of humanity that continue to exist beneath the noise of the present.
Sudabeh Vatanparast
Artist Statement:
In a world where external tensions — from structures of power to social pressures — and internal tensions — such as experiences, memories, emotions, and identity — continually shape and transform us, art becomes, for me, a means to better understand the human condition today.
Photography, in this process, is not merely a representation of reality; it is a way to contemplate and move closer to the uncertain and shifting layers of human existence, a medium for constructing meaning and narrative. It is an attempt to quietly grasp what flows beneath the surface of contemporary life.
Zahida Abdul Latif
Artist Statement
The layers and lines emerge from what I never said unexplained feelings and experiences that remain as memory.
They inhabit the body, building over time and shaped by ongoing questions of identity and belonging. While these layers carry years of trauma, they also support growth and transformation throughout my journey
Shadi Mahmood Zada
Press, 2025
12 pieces of photography
This work of art consists of a series of photographs that express my personal situation, where I feel that I live my life within a narrow boundary. This is the result of difficult interactions and
treatment with others. Living in such a situation places you under deep mental and physical pressure. It makes all the spaces feel confined, to the point where I feel short of breath. At such times, art becomes a gateway for me to escape this pressure and crisis.
Rasha Abu Zedan
Artist Statement
My work explores internal states of restriction, control, and psychological pressure, otten reflecting broader social and political conditions. I am interested in moments where the body or mind appears contained—physically or emotionally—and how small visual elements can suggest the possibility of release, resistance, or quiet endurance.
Working primarily with digital media and conceptual visual language, I rely on
Kimia Tavassoly
Artist Statement:
The "SELF SERIES" is a visual exploration born from my personal journey through life's hardships and my academic pursuit of meaningful expression. As a 24-year-old visual communication graduate, I have often used graphic design to channel complex feelings and address social issues. Yet, for years, I struggled to find the appropriate language to articulate the profound sense of solitude that shaped my experiences, pushing me to feel emotions more deeply-
Rahimat Onize
Artist Statement:
My work explores the quiet, symbolic language of the human experience, identity, emotion, culture, and the unseen threads that shape who we become. Through portraiture and constructed scenes, I use light, colour, fabric, and handcrafted elements to translate inner states into visual form.
Growing up in Nigeria and now creating in the
UK, 1 am drawn to the intersections of heritage and selfhood, and how culture continues to echo within us no matter where we stand.