Language is a fundamental thread running throughout Bagheri’s work, both as an exploration of communication but also through the importance he places on literature as a conduit to express human existence. He says of this focus, ‘I am interested in language as an active and living element of life and its manifestations in spoken or written form or as ‘body language’.  I ponder over art and what it means to converse with myself and the world around me, a conversation which may not lead to an actual or instructive conclusion but which reveals my way of thinking and imagination.’  For him, we live in language. Like the paradoxical instant between pain and pleasure, it sarcastically reveals our captivity. We use it to liberate ourselves in the realm of active expressions but yet, the liberation is the beginning of a confinement. The language, in all its forms (word, body, icon), begins with the first cry. The lungs starts. Life begins. And it is in this undeniable and paradoxical moment of trauma, euphoria, liberation and captivity that we see an unrecognised new face of language: speaking through existence.