Writer, Director, Curator: Why Tara Aghdashloo Is Defining the Modern Multidisciplinary Artist

As a poet, Aghdashloo’s voice is characterized by its intimacy, clarity, and powerful use of imagery, often exploring the internal landscape shaped by inherited trauma and female experience. Her poems frequently engage with the complex relationship she holds with the Farsi language, which she wields as both a key to her past and a tether to her cultural identity, often contrasting it with the realities of life in the West. Her verse, while structurally disciplined, maintains a flowing, lyrical quality, capturing the rhythm of displacement and the ongoing human need to reconcile diverse cultural inheritances into a singular, authentic self.