Artwork Collection

01 For Jurying Consideration

Unsaying Words presents fear, anger and oppression on political and social levels that have affected my personal life and future. It is a series of individual artworks inspired by memories of lived experience: a personal narrative about my childhood, teenage years and a broken marriage. Each explores the complexities of memories through mark-making, layering, editing, and excavating language.

Memories Lived experiences

Installation

Frantic Expressions

Immediate gestural mark-making breakthroughs and spoiling of the drywall represent memories of violence and invading homes by war. Multi-layered work signifies layers of history and past moments of life. When the the moment is gone; the moment's... More

Drawing

Censored

Censored is a presentation of the suffocated voices of middle eastern women who grew up in a highly patriarchal and religious-oriented society experiencing unfair realities in life. They are forced to stay silent about the ugly truth tailored by... More

Installation

Unattained Dreams

Unattained Dream is an immersive installation containing six layers of clear plastic sheets. The narrative of unattained dreams and what-if sentences on each sheet overlap. The position of the sheets creates a lost horizon line, and the height of... More

Other

Reminisce

Reminisce is a presentation of my childhood memories in a hand-made book form. The images in the book are the process images of the Unsaying Words collection.

Integrated Media

Unsaying Words

The video piece is a performative drawing to show a silent conversation that can translate differently for every audience. Expressive gestural writings using right and left hands represent Farsi scripts are written right to left, and western... More

Work by

Parastoo Mahmoudi

Cross-Disciplinary Art: Life Studies major/ Drawing and Painting minor