MARYAM KHOSROVANI
b. 1981, IranMaryam Khosrovani (b. 1981, Tehran) is an Iranian conceptual artist and teacher working between Paris and New York. Her research-based practice spans drawing, mixed media and installation, exploring social issues shaped by her cross-cultural experience.
Her drawings, sometimes incorporating weaving, folding or pinholes, feature fluid, hose-like forms unfolding through sequences inspired by movement and gravity. Though minimal in appearance, they result from meticulous labor and balance physical presence with conceptual depth. Using photography as a reference, her technique merges hyperrealism and abstraction, capturing unpredictable, almost non-human motion.
These forms carry layered meanings: from psychoanalytic tensions between control and release, to childhood memories of playing with garden hoses in Tehran, and broader political echoes of global cable networks and data flows.
Maryam is the recipient of the Fondation François Schneider | Talents contemporains 13ème édition award in June 2024.
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