Artist Statement
Fusion of the Possible, Topographie de l’art, April 15 – June 15
Oil sculpture series, 2014-2023
Mixed materials (oils, mineral gelatin, pigment, cast pmma, polymers, cotton, fabrics, motor, light system), 22 x 22 cm each. Device design Rémi Boulnois
Photos Matthieu Fappani, Golnaz Behrouznia
The series benefited from individual assistance in the creation of the Drac Midi Pyrénées 2014
Courtesy of Adagp, Paris.
[Translated from french by Google Translate]
“It’s hard to name what’s submerged in the glass containers of Golnaz Behrouznia’s Aquatilium 0.2 series, whose aesthetic often invokes the life sciences. She reminds us of the essential role of observation in both artistic creation and scientific research. Initiated in the artist’s studio-laboratory, these floating pieces are only completed with comments from observers. So it is that each and every one of us projects ourselves into such abstractions, daring to make our own personal interpretations, just waiting to be exchanged with others. And isn’t that what ideas are all about, in art as in science?” _Dominique Moulon, 2023
“Golnaz Behrouznia work on an extension of her Floating Pieces series, called Aquatilium. She brings movement to her sculptures, in the liquid they contain. It thus comes to remember the movement of the planets or the tremors of the flesh … The artist organizes the space of the room in the manner of an imaginary laboratory, with astonishing forms referring to those of microscopic nature, to chemistry, or even to elements of fiction. _Bérangère Brecqueville 2014
https://www.golnazbehrouznia.com/aquatilium-02.html
- Golnaz Behrouznia (IR/FR). For several years now, Golnaz Behrouznia has been making a name for herself with her multi-media work based on the living thing. After her studies at the Fine Arts in Tehran, she took part in several exhibitions in Iran. Her gelatinous compositions, Floating Pieces, were hailed by the prize of the Biennial of Sculpture in 2007 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran. She studied digital creation in Toulouse in 2011. Golnaz Behrouznia’s recent work is based on a desire to question societal and environmental issues with the very tools that have shaped our last thirty years. In Dissimilarium, it’s the burning question of how to inhabit the world, when it may be an illusion, or when it perhaps already too late, or when hybridization has obliterated the original monad. The presence of foreign, biomorphic forms, mixed with recognizable elements of urban landscape, will give the viewer the feeling of being in a mutation of the world as we know it. https://www.golnazbehrouznia.com