In her recent series, Illusion (2024-2026), Kiany draws on personal recollection and observation to explore nostalgia amid the stratified realities of the present. Often incorporating self-representations set within familiar childhood settings, she reimagines her subjects held in the weightless cadence of early life, constructing scenes that remain suspended between recollection and presence.

Hovering between play and pause, these images reflect the unfettered vitality of childhood amid uncertainty.