Artist Statement

Sharzadian weaves with mirrors, rooted in Persian poetry. Her multidisciplinary practice spans mirror installations, sculptural pieces, mixed media painting, and live performance — each form a different entry point into the same abiding inquiry: what stories are we carrying, and what would shift if we saw them from another angle.The mirror is her language that moves through every form she inhabits. In her mixed media paintings, mirror fragments appear as both material and motif, fracturing the portrait into layered truths rather than a single image. In her installations and sculptures, she deploys mirrors as architectural instruments: curating angles, abstracting space, suspending the viewer in a moment of disorientation that opens, quietly, into awe. In performance, she brings them as charged objects — small, deliberate, weighted with meaning — recurring symbols in a live grammar that unfolds in real time.
Her monthly performances are their own form: a live collision of monologue, painting, and improvised score, created alongside musicians and performance artists in a durational act she describes as a jazz between disciplines. She opens with her own voice — her own lineage — and moves toward something communal. Increasingly, that communal space holds the stories of others: the unrecorded, the unheadlined, the human.
Raised in Iran, where poetry is vernacular and ancient myth is present tense, she brings to her practice an understanding that the stories we carry are older and more necessary than the ones we are currently being told. Her work is an act of restoration — and of resistance.

• Body of work

ContactSchedule a visit to the Atelier in Lisbon to explore the works in personOpen to international projectsEmail sharzadian at gmail dot com

Mirrorwork Workshop — Lisbon StudioA Workshop on Persian mirror art by Sharzadian

In Persian architecture, āine-kāri (mirror work) converted palaces into poetry through millions of geometric fragments of reflection.

From the Venetian monopoly to the war and peace rooms of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, from royal salons to whispered treaties that ended empires—mirrors have seen it all.Sharzadian is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist whose narrative-driven practice is shaped by her lived experience across California, Paris, Lisbon, and Tehran. Working primarily with reflective surfaces, she constructs poetic dialogues between shadow, form, and reflection—each offering a distinct yet interwoven fragment of truth.Her sculptural work draws on Ainekari, the intricate mirrorwork tradition found in ancient Persian architecture, reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens. By layering light, absence, and perspective, Sharzadian invites viewers into a space where reality is never singular, but refracted—seen differently depending on where one stands.