The Lost Object (Gereft-o-Gir)
The Lost Object series, mainly represent bronze figures or the artist's busts, enclosed by larger versions of the same sculpture, which are made of Persian visual elements and motifs such as arabesques, or poems, in artist’s handwriting, reflecting cultural perceptions on human body. Inspired by Lacan, the artworks explore and highlight the idea of culture’s significance in constructing and shaping human beings, as well as the dichotomy of the cultural and the natural, as well as the tensions which may arise from the gap between these two.
The Lost Object
The Lost Object series, mainly represent bronze figures or the artist's busts, enclosed by larger versions of the same sculpture, which are made of Persian visual elements and motifs such as arabesques, or poems, in artist’s handwriting, reflecting cultural perceptions on human body. Inspired by Lacan, the artworks explore and highlight the idea of culture’s significance in constructing and shaping human beings, as well as the dichotomy of the cultural and the natural, as well as the tensions which may arise from the gap between these two.
Rapunzel & Roudabeh
This sculpture belongs to a series of works in which hair is the highlighted material and the signifier which reflects part of our lived experiences and cultural conditions. The overall theme is culture vs. nature, and restriction vs. freedom. In both stories of Rapunzel and Roudabeh, the protagonists use their hair as a means to communicate with the outside world, so hair is here a metaphor for a natural tendency and desire for freedom, and interaction with the world freely, something that defies isolation and more broadly the cultural restrictive conventions.
The Cosmopolites
The Cosmopolites deals with the concept of displacement and immigration at its core layer. The sculpture, from the collection of “Games and Toys”, is an interactive piece, designed based on the pool. The shape of the pool table reflects the Winkel Tripel world map. The balls of the original game are replaced with sitting female and male figures, surrounded and held tightly in place within the walls of the outline. Sitting figures, which are multiplied 3-D printed version of the artist’s own body, are recurrent in her works signifying passiveness, resignation and inaction regardless of the situation. The position of the figures may be subject to the change by the cue sticks, designed to evoke batons, as representative of the tools of exercising power and control.
The Maze Toy
The form of the interactive sculpture depicts the borders of Iran, inside which further walls and borders have risen, separating a female and a male figure, which have replaced the balls of the original toy, and created a maze with no clear destination or path to follow. Sitting figures, which are later replaced with the multiplied 3-D printed version of the artist’s own body, are recurrent in her works signifying passiveness and inaction
Untitled (Unification)
Untitled is a sculpture designed and made drawing on pin art toy structure with female figures as its pins. The figures are wearing Chador – considered as the perfect Hijab in Iran – which imply adherence to the rules and codes of highest virtue for women defined by the state. The artwork questions the desired cultural homogeneity by representing identical, product-like figures, whose positions and movement are subject to the viewers’ will.
The lost object (Arabesque)
The Lost Object series, mainly represent bronze figures or the artist's busts, enclosed by larger versions of the same sculpture, which are made of Persian visual elements and motifs such as arabesques, or poems, in artist’s handwriting, reflecting cultural perceptions on human body. Inspired by Lacan, the artworks explore and highlight the idea of culture’s significance in constructing and shaping human beings, as well as the dichotomy of the cultural and the natural, as well as the tensions which may arise from the gap between these two.