collaborations . solo and group exhibitions . curatorial
I am multidisciplinary artist. Born in Iran 1965, lived in Sweden since 1983. Studied film and animation, graphic and Illustration, art history and communication in various schools and universities, including Stockholm University of the Art and Konst Fack. Worked as a teacher, lecturer, film producer and worked within advertising and television. In 2019 I became a member of Studio44, an Artist-Run gallery in Stockholm. In 2022 became a member of the Artist-Run gallery and space Slipvillan and also member of The Swedish Association of Curators.
All my artistic activities, my photographs, my artworks, everything has its core in spaces around and between people’s everyday lives. In a wider perspective, the invisible that plays its politics, its agenda, its nature to define mankind, to define humanity in a world of a unknown-universe. And I’m just a part of it all. Though, these pieces of work, if they survive the everyday storms, in future they will be the results of what I saw and what I did. Then I’m done with my part of the story.
My artistic process moves among constructed structures. I am looking at how and for what purposes these structures have been formed and how humans navigate, mentally and physically through these structures. Also how memories that are filtered through these structures are reformulated over time where physical distance plays a large role in a process of constant change.
Experimentation in my processes is closely related to my own personal experiences and observations. I usually work with materials that I have at hand and have access to at the moment.
My expressions in the form of installation, photography, moving image, film, sculpture, graphic works and painting often carry a poetic and philosophical undertone. I allow my stories to determine the choice of medium for the final work.
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Our three-year collaboration with the theme “Dark Matter” ends where we begun; at Studio44 gallery. It was the most rewarding process I have ever been through and a fantastic collaboration with Penja and Jannike. I am so grateful.
”The universe has its own rules in every corner of space in different ways. Scientists are trying to understand these rules. Rules that affect life on Earth. Technology advances, the answers to many scientific questions create further questions about the great mystery called the universe and maybe they even find the answer to why we are here on earth! On the other hand, we have turned the earth into a killing field! The meaning of the word "existence" is redefined to "to cutting air with a knife"! Me: I wonder if I can paint the infinity?” - M. 2024
Installation at #ArtWindowAtFridhemsplan - Stockholm - 2024
How to deal with all these sorrows? Far too many loved ones have passed away in recent years. Heavy grief follows! I continue my daily routines. With sadness penetrated deep into my soul, I will always think of them during my daily routines; routines and discussions that sometimes feel pathetic and irrelevant in every imaginable aspect you can think of.
FUTURUM IMPERATIV
I am walking on a straight line of time thinking about the presence. (an ongoing art project)
This photography part of my project, taken 2023 during a walk in the coast of Niigata, JAPAN
Exhibition at Niigata Eya
Solo Photo exhibition at Niigata Eya - Niigata perfecture, JAPAN October 2023
The traveller’s footsteps
JORD ( Soil ) Group exhibition at Studio44 2023 - Painted by knife on MDF / FOR SALE
International Photography Exhibitionat 2023
- Slipvillan/ Stockholm
Curator and participant 2023
The Traveler’s footsteps
My art works hanging at RuimteCaesuur, Middelburg, Nederlands
https://issuu.com/caesuur/docs/22_caesuur_slipvillan_catalogus
Supported by
Conflux
Artist group Slipvillan: Rikard Fåhraeus, Masoud Shahsavari, Jannike Brantås, Laetitia Deschamps, Madeleine Aleman. October 29,-2022. Supported by Region Stockholm
KAJKo
Art Event at Skärholmen-SWEDEN
Communication 2.0
Exchange with Borey Gallery, St.Petersburg
Studio44 Artists (Sweden) and PARAZIT Group (Russia)
Communication 1.0
Exchange with Borey Gallery, St.Petersburg
Studio44 Artists (Sweden) and PARAZIT Group (Russia)
Poster design: Masoud Shahsavari
The fifth force of nature - Exhibition at Studio44-Stockholm - August 19th - September 4th - Poster design: Masoud Shahsavari
Poster design: Masoud Shahsavari
Happy and honored to be part of this exhibition.
Vernissage Saturday the 4th of June. 12:00-22:00
Slipvillan's summer exhibition this year is called "De Aningslösa". An exhibition in the free zone of ignorance.
In the garden and indoors, works by 16 artists are displayed:
Mia Andrée, Jannike Brantås, Galina Davydtchenko, Laetitia Deschamps, Rikard Fåhraeus, Vanja Gyllensköld, Emma Göransson, Sanna Sevika Hansson, Mats Landström, Helena Norell, Hans Overvliet, Malin Peter, Ljubomir Popovic, Masoud Shahsavari, Jesper Thour, Tuva Widen.
The exhibition is open until Sunday 19 June every day from 12:00-17:00
Each of us has to relate to what seems to be the ignorance of our time before a future that is approaching with increasing speed. Being clueless in today's information society is almost a paradox or self-chosen blinders. Perhaps ignorance can be seen as an utopian state we lost a long time ago. The term inevitably refers to "the other" as the clueless. In Slipvillan's garden, the birds are still chirping, the bumblebees are buzzing and the lilacs are blooming. The exhibition allows us to guess a little more. Welcome to Långholmen.
Poster design: Masoud Shahsavari
I donated and sold three of my photographs to the event Art For Ukraine together with over 160 other artists in an auction. I was one of the organizers.
HERE + MUTATION
JUXTAPOSE ART FAIR
Sleeping At The Border - Exhibited at Juxtapose / Aarhus 2021
I have been granted support from Nordic Cultur Point for participation in the exhibition JUXTAPOSE ART FAIR - Aarhus, Denmark 2021
The Taste of Color
Solo PHOTO exhibition- - Thanks to DUO- CONTRADICTION 2021
I participate in the exhibition:
JUXTAPOSE ART FAIR - Aarhus, Denmark / Aug. 2021
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Studio 44 has since 2003 been an independent, non-commercial space for contemporary art. They are always looking for new groups of artists from all over the world to create new mutual collaborations. Dynamic and democratic at their core Studio 44 never shy away from experimenting with new approaches.
They will be presenting works by
Laëtitia Deschamps
Mariana Ekner
Rikard Fåhraeus
Carolina Hindsjö
Mats Landström
Monika Masser
Helena Norell
Katarzyna Piorek
Lena Rammi
Masoud Shahsavari
Ekaterina Sisfontes
Nina Wedberg Thulin
Chih-Lin Yeh
Andrej Zverev
The exhibition ”Chaos” - Two of my photographs will be displayed at The Museum of Work in Norrköping/ Sweden. September 2020 until January 2021
Kaos
Participation Dokumentär Fotosalong 2020, Arbetets Museum, NORRKÖPING
2019 - The photo book “Dark Matter” is published
2019 - Member of Studio 44 in Stockholm
My photograph on the cover of the Photoshoot 2020 book, from the group exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, US.
https://blackboxgallery.com/Photo%20Shoot-2020-EP.html