The Coveration of Eve
A Research-Led Visual Practice
Ayda Pakzad Afshar
A living research-led visual practice exploring how systems of myth, culture, and power shape the visibility of the female body.
About the Project
The Coveration of Eve explores how female bodies become visible through overlapping systems of belief, cultural norms, and power.
Rather than treating images as historical records, the project approaches them as active visual systems that continue to shape how bodies are seen today.
Working through collage, archives, visual notebooks, and material experiments, it develops a growing counter-archive that questions these inherited ways of seeing.
Visual research notebook 01: Collage as method: fragmentation, layering, and reconstruction
How the Project Develops
Every investigation begins with a question rather than a finished artwork.
Each line of inquiry grows through notebooks, archival research, collage studies, material experiments, proposals, residencies, and exhibitions.
Rather than following a linear sequence, the project expands through interconnected investigations that continue to influence one another.
Current Lines of Inquiry
Five interconnected investigations continue to expand as the project develops.
Current Investigations
Research rarely moves in a straight line.
These are the investigations currently being developed.
Visual Process
Images are not illustrations of research.
They are part of the research itself.
Support the Project
The Coveration of Eve is an independently developed long-term research project.
Research, archive visits, materials, residencies, publications, and public presentations are made possible through grants, institutional support, and individual contributions.
If you'd like to help this research continue, there are several ways to participate.
Every contribution, whether through support, collecting an edition, or simply following the research, helps this project continue to develop independently.