B.1977 Mashhad, Iran

Behnaz Ghasemi (B. 1977) completed her studies in the principles of academic painting and art criticism in three different nations, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Iran; and is currently studying philosophy at the University of London. Ghasemi describes her pieces as physical and visual manifestations of the inner working of her mind, unbounded by form or medium and reflective of the different phases of her life. Her artwork ranges from large-scale outdoor installations to small-scale intricate and delicate watercolours. The diversity and versatility depicted within her practice are a reflection of her varied studies and interests, including mysticism, Persian literature, and poetry. In her series of colour pencil and pencil paper drawings, she reflects upon not only how we perceive and receive reality but the kind of relationships we develop with it and, at times, how we abnormally disconnect internally within our own minds. Her works, as with the exhibition, serve as a rumination of the construction of realities between the interfaces of the self and the other.