Discover the contemporary work of Mariam Azad

Of Iranian origin and trained as an architect, I am today a visual artist. Political and social art is my favorite field. My work develops the question of “women’s cause” and the power of social control over their bodies.

A series of sculptures entitled “to be or to become”, a concept based on the philosophy of existentialism “man is nothing other than his project, he only exists to the extent that he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing other than the totality of his actions, nothing other than his life” These porcelain sculptures give this feeling, despite their scars, of being in a perpetual rebirth. Both timeless and permanent, they offer their fragility, a quiet present with elegance and without artifice. Beauty is thus accepted as an irreversible process towards voluntary withdrawal from the world that is too ugly, too noisy, too invasive. Hence perhaps this enigmatic gravity. The posture of the head, the absence of a smile or a look, ultimately, this contemplation.