ARTIST PORTFOLIO · 2022—2026
Zeinab
Mousavi
Painting · Drawing · Installation · Moving Image
Selected works and research, 2022—2026
About / Biography
Working with space, image, and the environments we inhabit.
Zeinab Mousavi is an Iranian artist who graduated from the Tehran School of Fine Arts and holds a Bachelor's degree in Painting from Soore University of Art. She is currently participating in the Advanced Bachelor course in Public Art at Accademia Unidee in Italy.
She uses spatial practices and site-specific installation, working with video, sound, drawing, and paper works. Using nature as one of her main sources of inspiration, she seeks a sense of purity in the process of image-making. Through experimentation with different media, she explores various dimensions of human life within landforms and natural environments.
Since 2015, her artworks have been presented in several group exhibitions in Iran, Norway, the United States, and Italy.
Artist portfolio / 2022—2026
Selected work
A selection of installation, painting, drawing, collage, and moving-image works.
Project 01 / 2024—2025
Emotional Map
Site-specific installation, 2024—2025
Have you ever been so lost in the world's circumstances that you lost the ruler to feel?
Two years ago, I found myself in a state of profound numbness, unable to locate my own sensitivity. It was a specific kind of displacement; I felt as though no place had been planned for me in this reality. In that void, I did not want to be a person; I wanted to be reincarnated as a stone or a speck of dust, just to feel the weight of existence again.
To survive this tastelessness, I began to make an Emotional Map. This was a way to locate myself in space when my internal compass had failed. By mapping my numbness, I sought to reclaim the ground beneath me. I used the environment as a site of return, transforming a lack of presence into a space of appearance.
Project 02 / 2022—2024
Paintings, Drawings & Collages
A selection of works on raw cotton, transparent paper, and paper, alongside installation and mixed-media studies.
I believe there is an abstraction in everything. If you start studying nature, there is a set of abstract combinations leading to a representational image. I see these materials as personas in different skins — displaced, eroded, diverse. They are not meant to be preserved, but simply held in this moment. This arrangement invites observation or play, like engaging with a memory that resists full shape.
Project 03 / Moving image
Video Archive
Videos of my surroundings — visions that reflect the process of seeing.
For me, recording is like drawing. I record things as they are. I do not comment; I record. In these moments I freeze; everything pauses and is simply revealed to us. Seeing and recording become acts of cessation. I stop, and I see.
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