My story
Biography
I am an Iranian ceramic artist currently based in Dubai. Born in Iran and raised in Shiraz, I later moved to Dubai to study Interior Design at the Canadian University Dubai. My artistic practice took shape in Tehran, where my relationship with clay gradually evolved into a sculptural language centered on form, tactility, and emotional expression.
Working primarily through hand-building techniques, I create pieces that exist between vessel and body, exploring themes of transformation, presence, resilience, and the complexities of human experience. I am drawn to the expressive potential of clay—its ability to record touch, retain memory, and embody both strength and fragility.
Over the years, my work has been presented in several exhibitions in Tehran, allowing me to share my evolving practice with a wider audience. Alongside my work as an artist, I am also a mother of two. The experience of motherhood has deepened my understanding of creation, care, continuity, and transformation—ideas that subtly find their way into my work.
Now based once again in Dubai, I continue to develop my practice within an international context, expanding my artistic dialogue and engaging with audiences across the region and beyond.
Artist Statement
My practice explores imperfection as a form of truth. Through sculpture, I investigate the tension between control and surrender, structure and vulnerability, seeking a visual language that embraces what is irregular, incomplete, and deeply human.
Working primarily with clay, I create forms that exist between vessel and body. These shapes emerge through an intuitive, hand-built process in which the material itself becomes an active collaborator. Rather than imposing absolute control, I allow gestures, distortions, and unexpected shifts to remain visible, preserving traces of making and the passage of time.
My work is informed by the cultural memory of Iran and by the experiences of women whose presence, resilience, and emotional complexity continue to shape my understanding of identity and belonging. While rooted in personal experience, the sculptures are not intended as portraits or representations. Instead, they function as embodied forms that carry both individual and collective narratives, inhabiting a space between containment and exposure, fragility and strength.
The decision to leave surfaces raw and unglazed is central to my practice. The natural texture of clay retains a sense of honesty and immediacy, allowing the material to speak without concealment. I am interested in how surface can hold memory—how cracks, irregularities, and imperfections become records of transformation rather than flaws to be corrected.
Ultimately, my work is an invitation to reconsider conventional ideas of beauty and completion. By embracing asymmetry, vulnerability, and material authenticity, I seek to create spaces for reflection where viewers may encounter beauty not in perfection, but in the complexity, resilience, and unfinished nature of human experience.
