Niloufar

About the Artwork

“Niloufar” is the result of an idea that has taken root in my mind over many years. It began with the ancient myth of Mashya and Mashyana and gradually developed, through the process of sculpture, into a personal and formal language of my own. In this work, I do not see Mashya and Mashyana as two separate figures, but in the moment when they become intertwined; two lovers whose boundaries gradually disappear as their bodies merge into a single form. For me, this intertwining is not simply an image of love; it is love taking form. “Niloufar” moves toward a botanical and romantic form, from which the two figures emerge and, at certain points, dissolve back into one another. Alongside the geometric lines and cuts are organic, fluid sections of the form—as if a geometric structure were growing and transforming into a living being. In this sculpture, I have tried to separate the myth of Mashya and Mashyana from its narrative and return it to the language of volume; to a place where love, intertwining, and becoming one take place not in the story, but within the form itself. For me, “Niloufar” is an image of love as a living form; a form that begins with two human beings and, at the moment of becoming one, makes it impossible to separate the two from each other.