Shirazeh houshiary artista

Since rising to prominence as a sculptor in the s, Shirazeh Houshiary’s practice also encompasses painting, installation, architectural projects and film.

Houshiary investigates the friction between the conscious and unconscious, control and chance, reflecting on the physical and immaterial qualities that shape art and human life.

Veils, membranes and mists are leitmotifs in Houshiary’s work that tries to visualise modes of perception.

Shirazeh houshiary artista

Houshiary finds succour in the transformation of material: two words, one an affirmation, the other a denial, are pencil-stroked onto canvas so lightly, and clouded over by finely wrought skeins of pigment, that they morph in front of the naked eye.

So too, aluminium or glass elliptical brick towers, charged with dynamic tension, appear different from every angle, as if negating their own presence.

Shirazeh Houshiary was born in Shiraz, Iran in and moved to London in , She studied at Chelsea School of Art and lives a