In 2002, I began my artistic activities with painting. I studied graphic design (Ardebil Technical University, Iran) and fashion design (Dr. Shariaty University) in Tehran, where my research focused on conceptual art and the way in which it overlaps with fashion design.

In 2010, as part of the campaign, I was invited to work with Benetton’s research center, Fabrica, in Treviso, Italy. With this experience, I became more acquainted with conceptual art and photography.

Around this time, I started engaging in performance art pieces around Iran, confronting issues of identity, gender, sexuality, and human compassion. I had also put on public shows in Spain, Turkey and India. Since 2012, I have been making video art, exploring the notion of self and identity, repetition and reflection with moving images. I studied under critically acclaimed Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. In both my performance pieces and videos, I design my own costumes, props, and sets. After making Sirocco Series (2012) in Kiarostami’s workshops I have become more captivated by nature and installation.

I needed an interaction with an environment that reflect a rhythm of repetition and continuity. I wanted to watch nature from a different aspect, as from the audience’s point of view. Mirrors installation in desert, in Evocation (2013) and Narcissus (2013) was my first eyeball-to-eyeball acquaintance with nature. Being in a pure and nude desert, and in a place, in which there was nothing except sky, sand and me, became a doss for my intimacy with nature. From this time on, I was not anymore at a place of subject, and nature was not an object that I recreate. I involved in a silent dialogue with nature; a dialogue with a mighty presence that was beholding me. Sometimes my installations in nature are without an audience and I personally documenting them with my camera and I am sharing them in virtual world.

In my recent projects I am trying to change the face of the nature. Mirror, water, metal, stone or any kind of element that has reflective capability is interesting for me. But mirror, with increasing the light gives much more clear reflection. It seems like it is a combination of two vital elements: Light and water, sometimes beside each other and sometimes in conflict with each other.

In March 2014, I was selected for a one-year scholarship with United Colors of Benetton’s Fabrica research center.

During my time in Italy, I worked in Fabrica’s Editorial

Department and worked on my original book on conceptual fashion, which is published in Iran by Nashre-Nazar.