Zahra Khosroshahi

Tehran, Iran

Artist Statement

The structure is inspired by the Zoroastrians tombs known as 'Stodan.' Nothingness is pure negation of existence. It seems that nothingness is something (is) that has this and that characteristic of being and non-being. Heidegger says: 'Nothingness means nothing,' and this nothingness is the essence of a bone. I always carry a number of bones with me. I bury a piece of bone in a pit and mark it.

Sample Work

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Artist Bio

Zahra Habibi Khosroshahi, born in 1981 in the green city of Tonekabon, has completed her studies in the early 2000s in the field of handicrafts with a focus on ceramics at Tabriz Art University.

The keywords of Zahra Habibi’s works are palpitation, fear, play, repetition, reproduction, and death. These have been the concerns of her life years and have become entangled with her lived experience. Her constant effort has been to create a world that transcends her fears, a world that is both imaginary and miraculous, and on the other hand, real. This duality has been the result of her artistic existence, and her art is a conceptual art that has epistemological roots in social and cultural contexts.