Artist background

Anousha Mohtashami is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her work, published in Censored magazine and exhibited at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Fondation Cartier, explores the intersections between matter, collective memory and social rituals.

Through sculpture, performance and installation, she questions in-between spaces, the instability of identity, gender and culture, and examines notions of skin and physical and symbolic boundaries, where identities metamorphose.

Her approach includes themes such as nature, pollution, violence and destruction. Fascinated by marshes and their parasites, often perceived as harmful but essential to the balance of this ecosystem, she questions the way in which opposing spaces coexist. This semiotic and cultural research is expressed in a transdisciplinary way. Anousha uses glass, composite materials, metal and the creation of portable pieces to explore the links between the body, ethics and the environment.