Maryam Ebtekar (Iran)
MARYAM EBTEKAR
Biography:
Born in 1979, Tehran , Iran. Holder of bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Design from Universities of Art and Tehran University Faculty of Fine Arts. She started her professional artistic activity with painting and has participated in over 20 individual and group painting exhibitions inside Iran and abroad. After painting, Ebtekar moved on further in her art creation with sculpting and designing jewelry and accessories. Several sets including Today, The Tulip, Persian Gardens, Hat, Broken Frames, The Blue Eye, The Second Life and Under pressure are among her works since 2015 which are all the result of her passion, effort and creativity from inception to completion. Ebtekar hopes to preserve novelty and glamour in her works of art.
Collection Concept: Under Pressure
The pressure that forces on us in this period of life, causes us to change. Changes often modify our forms and beauties, therefore we will never be those old creatures. These pressures make us new beings with new colors and faces. With hope, this difficult path can be tolerated and try to put back together with the crushed and burnt pieces for making a new beautiful human.
Under pressure collection, made on handmade paper pulps deform into unexpected shapes before drying due to pressure. After drying, burns have been created on it by fire. These burns have brought unpredictable forms and colors. For connecting the separated parts, some pieces of wood which are found in nature. At last, I could make wonderful pieces that have passed the hard path.
“Faces covered with a mask
On the top two helpless eyes
A beautiful flower with a pin
Put on my chest
Until fill
Empty looks of mouthless wayfarers
Until being a smile
For lipless faces
And maybe revive a beauty
For disturbed minds”
