
Anna Schamsi Schofeld-Bahrami
I am a feminist abstractionist – artist, mother, and woman living with chronic illness. In my practice, I navigate the tensions that shape me: strength and exhaustion, control and surrender, chaos and clarity. For me, abstraction is not an intellectual exercise but an act of liberation – a space where I can breathe, feel, and reassemble myself. Motherhood teaches me daily how identity stretches, breaks, and reforms.
Living with chronic illness confronts me with limits – yet also reveals a profound power in renegotiating them. These polarities find their way into my work: in vibrant color fields, gestural movements, and layered compositions that hold both vulnerability and resistance.
My art is feminist because it portrays femininity as power – not cliché. Pink is my form of resistance: a color long dismissed, to which I restore its agency. It stands for visibility, courage, and self-determination. In my paintings, abstraction becomes a feminist act – dismantling male-dominated traditions through emotion, intuition, and intensity.
For me, it is a gift to perceive the world through a female lens – soft, emotional, and deeply intuitive. I see strength in softness, power in sensitivity. In a world still shaped by analytical, masculine ideals, this emotional perspective becomes an act of quiet rebellion – a reminder that true strength often lies in empathy, openness, and emotional depth.
My works speak of empowerment, of identity in flux, of finding beauty within chaos. They reveal that power does not lie in perfection, but in the courage to continuously transform.