Paria Ahmadi is an Iranian artist/safety match/کبریت بی‌خطر based in New York. In her practice, she focuses on the politics of memory and archive and the poetic relations of language, image, and objects. She works in printmaking, sculpture/arrangements, video, and harmless humor.

Safety Matches is a series of prints on red phosphorous paper, where every image, based on its political cultural context, can be a trigger to start a fire. It comes with a short film called Every time I caused a flame, it left an ugly mark, in which she keeps striking matches on an image of her own smile until the image fades away.

Yellow to You, Red to Me is a poetic archive of fire, based on images of protests in Iran through video calls with her family, friends, and footage circulating on social media, printed into a felt rug.

A letter for the dog is a burning candle on felt, from an archive of many other letters for her dog.