Azarmidokht Elahi

  • Works
    • 2026
      • Stop reproducing
      • Sitting on hope
    • 2025
      • This is Not Just a Scarf
      • International-peace-day
      • Bomb On-Sale
    • 2024New Skin
    • 2022
    • 2021Traditions
    • 2020
      • I am not your Holy Cow
      • Toilet paper
    • 2015Rain of blessing
    • 2014Disrupted Childhood
    • 2013War for peace
    • 2012
      • Invisible Loops
      • Last Month
    • 2011Walls have ears
  • About me

Stop Reproducing Soldiers

2026 – Sydney – Australia





This work confronts the violent paradox embedded in human civilisation — where protection, reproduction, and survival are manipulated into instruments of war.

The object merges symbols of life and defence with the shape of ammunition, exposing how systems of power convert human bodies into weapons. It questions the political control of reproduction, the militarisation of identity, and the inherited cycles of violence passed from one generation to the next.

Soldiers are not born. They are manufactured through ideology, fear, nationalism, and structural inequality.

This work resists the normalisation of war by reclaiming the body as a site of life, autonomy, and resistance. It calls for a collective refusal to reproduce violence through our cultures, institutions, and histories.

To stop reproducing soldiers is to defend childhood, dignity, and the possibility of peace.

Thanks to @Thrillingvillaartgallery