Maryam Ashkanian – The 11th Persbook Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition

Maryam Ashkanian 

Title: From the “Harash” Series
Technique: Stitching on fabric
Dimensions: 170 x 170 centimeters
Year: 1400
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“Harash” (Qey) means raising and consciously bringing back the self-inflicted and deliberate act of what causes pain and hardship. It’s the action of bringing forth the hurtful element when hiding or ignoring it becomes difficult and burdensome.

Ancients considered “Harash” as a therapeutic method for purifying and cleansing the body from poisons and corrupt humors. A preventive method for tranquility and lightness of being.

This is precisely the saving action that the artist, after the painful process of observation, experience, understanding, and the accumulation of its consequences, creates with his wounded and suffering soul (creating art).

Maryam Ashkanian, born in 1367 in Bandar Anzali, is a painter and sculptor graduated from Gilan University of Art.

Winner of the Borderless Biennial Prize at the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico Selected artist at the Edinburgh Iranian Festival, Scotland Winner of the third edition of the Emerging Artist International Prize, Dubai Selected artist at the Textile Biennial Rijswijk, Netherlands

Maryam Ashkanian is considered a pioneer in dealing with sculpture and the arrangement of a monumental figure in the Iranian space. A wave that began with the inspiration from her works. Ashkanian’s later orientation towards fabric arrangements, which she called mutations herself, is an unconscious argument within the contemporary art discourse.

She is known as the founder and manager of the “Chum Gallery” in Bandar Anzali. This gallery started its work in 1399 as the first professional gallery active in this city. In addition to this artistic management, the first and second editions of the “Port in the Fog” National Illustration Festival during the years 1392 and 1393 are among her other prominent activities.

Web Site: Maryam Ashkanian

Maryam Ashkanian