Zahra Yazdani
(b. 1986)
Zahra Yazdani is a visual artist based in Iran. Her practice is an excavation of spaces and performing bodies through processes of photo shooting, archive building and collaboration with performers. Making use of alternative photographic processes and various collage-making procedures, she seeks ways to an in-between atmosphere where the borders of documentary and fiction are blurred. Her works mainly incorporate photography, printmaking, video and art books. Inspired by Iranian storytelling, she explores the unconscious layers of the mind in a mythical and metaphorical atmosphere by fantasizing untouched landscapes as a true symbol of this Orphic state stepping closer to the ‘Forbidden Lands’, the title of the series of works in question.
Zahra completed her BFA from Soore Art University of Tehran. Her solo exhibitions include ‘Forbidden Lands’, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran (2018); ‘Realm’, Aran Plus Art Gallery, Tehran (2014); ‘Black Chaos’, Idea Art Gallery, Tehran (2012). Group exhibitions include Delhi Contemporary Art Week with LATITUDE 28, Bikaner House, New Delhi (2023); ‘Persian Sucker’ presented by 31927_2, ArtTo, Canada Art Fair (2020); Glo’ Art Open Studio at Lanaken, Belgium (2019); ‘Cartography of Narratives’, LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2019); ‘Babur Ki Gai’, curated by Adwait Singh and Bhavna Kakar at LATITUDE 28, New Delhi (2018); among others. She is a recipient of the GENERATOR cooperative production fund for Project Blink in collaboration with Ashish Sahoo (2021).
