Nazanin Pouyandeh
Prix Carta Bianca
Nazanin Pouyandeh won the first price of the @prixcartabianca.
A major initiative supporting contemporary artistic creation, developed between France and Italy, the Carta Bianca Prize aims to create a dialogue between the worlds of art and health.
The violent events currently unfolding in Iran find a persistent echo in Nazanin Pouyandeh’s work. Without ever taking the form of a manifesto, her painting captures the tensions of an era marked by crises, bearing witness to an increasingly unstable and unsettling world.
The artist
Born in Teheran in 1981, Nazanin Pouyandeh was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in 2000, where she joined the studio of painter Pat Andrea. Her technical virtuosity brings the verist dimension of her painting to a climax, although there is no link with hyperrealism. In fact, Nazanin Pouyandeh draws on all available sources of imagery, as the boundaries between arts, eras and cultures have become permeable. The result is a feeling of formal strangeness that has much to do with dreams. Nazanin Pouyandeh questions collective representations of women, as well as themes of eroticism and violence.
