Marjan Ghorbani

Marjan Ghorbani (b. 1990, Tehran) is a Tehran-based visual artist. She began her studies in graphic design and received her B.A. in Painting from Islamic Azad University, Tehran. Drawing is central to her practice, although her work is not confined to a specific medium. Instead, each project determines its medium according to its own logic and requirements. Alongside drawing, she works with painting, installation, photography, and video. At the core of Ghorbani’s practice is an investigation into the relationship between structure, material, and memory. She understands structure as a process shaped by matter, history, and lived experience, which is continually transformed and leaves traces in individual and collective memory. Her projects often begin with research into a particular material. For Ghorbani, material is not merely a means of producing an artwork, but a carrier of history, culture, and power relations. Stone, glass, metal, and sequins become conceptual elements in her work, opening up ways of thinking about endurance, collapse, reflection, erasure, connection, and reconstruction. In her work, meaning emerges not only through imagery but also through the behavior of materials. Light, reflection, density, fracture, and erosion form the language of the work and invite the viewer to participate in the process of constructing meaning. Her research develops through a dialogue between contemporary art, philosophy, sociology, and memory studies. Nevertheless, her works do not seek to illustrate theoretical concepts; rather, they explore these ideas through the material itself and its physical properties.