“Photography is always suspended between authenticity, construction and selection … a balancing act that is, to me,
its quintessential justification as an artistic medium” Shirana Shahbazi
Shirana Shahbazi adopts different approaches to photography in her work and explores genres as varied as the vanitas
still-life, portraiture, landscape and colour abstraction. Shahbazi is just as mobile in her choice of media, for example
commissioning carpet makers in her native Iran and billboard painters to copy her images. Often employing the slick
look of commercial photography, Shahbazi’s images are bright and accessible, yet at heart dispassionate and sceptical.
Shirana Shahbazi was born in Tehran in 1974, moved to Germany in 1985 and today lives in Zurich. Shahbazi studied
photography and design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund and at Zurich University of the
Arts. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, Barbican Art Gallery
in London and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Shirana Shahbazi
von Shirana Shahbazi
