OneArt's featured artist

Mahnaz Seyed Ekhtiary

Iran

Costume

biography

Mahnaz Seyed Ekhtiary

Born in 1985, Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Milan, Italy

Born in 1985, is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Milan. She installs her works on the body and makes it as a sculpture and paint in motion. Her study focuses precisely on the relationship between body/clothes and clothes/space. Her creations think over society, identity and particularly how nature relates to humans. The artist explains: “The peculiarity of nature is that it never ends in a definitive image and it always leaves an open image”. The viewer through her work can imagine the universe by new rules, new forms and in a continuous metamorphosis. In fact, in her work it is often her own material that changes during the creation of the work. Within this symbiotic interaction between the artist and material, and also the union of the body with nature, there is an act of liberation of the artist, who finds her answers to the questions that have always afflicted man: his identity, his role and the function he performs in the world. Furthermore, in her work, another element full of meaning is the hand, which is connected to psychology and philosophy. Furthermore the artist explains: "The hand reveals the complex unconscious of human beings. Aristotle said that the hands are the most symbolic member of the body. In addition, the hands are able to erase the space between two people and write the words on other's skin".

OneArt's featured artist

Mahnaz Seyed Ekhtiary

Iran

Costume

Mahnaz Seyed Ekhtiary: Costume | 2011

Mahnaz Seyed Ekhtiary