Negin Mahzoun (Iran/USA)
Negin Mahzoun was born in Tehran, Iran, and lives and works in Manhattan, NY. Her artistic practice focuses on observation, memory and gender in the context of her personal experiences, cultural identity through the women’s body as an object and subject with the perspective of self-portraiture, and layers of history and literature. She expresses her work through various media and materials such as sculpture, installation, painting, printmaking and photography. She works primarily with canvas, treads, paper and water-based pigments to create a specific space for sharing existing life experience for the women apart from assumptions and oppressive laws governed by society.
During her stay, Negin Mahzoun is planning to work on a project in which she creates sculptures based on miniature painting, inspired by literature such as Haft Paykar/Seven Portraits by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi. She has already done the primary research for this and intends to experiment and make mockups with various materials during her residency, in order to find the best material for the project. The main goal is to make large-scale sculptures for public or private spaces, and finding the right material is an important part of the process.
