from Gaze series Drawing

Foroozan Shirghani (b. 1981, Shirvan, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist working mostly in drawing, painting, sculpture, sewing, video and installation art. Her work usually stems from her personal experiences and mainly focuses on psychological and socio-political issues, especially identity challenges in today’s individual and social life. The objects have a symbolic nature in her works and imply social behaviors. Her previous project entitled "Gaze" deals with the subject of glasses. Her portraits stare from behind multi-purpose glasses with a hesitant look elsewhere. These differing glasses, when overlapped, present a vision beyond vision. Using compressed plastic bottles as inspiration, her current project entitled “Alienation”, explores ideas of fragmentation and alienation of human identity in the present day. An identity which gradually leads to the collapse of the body and alienation from itself and others. As an immigrant artist, she addresses these life-altering situations formally with fragmentation, deformation and eventually destruction of her subjects. The bodies she creates exist in an apocalyptic world where time, place and even the very appearance of humanity does not exist.