Growing up in Iran, the land of literature, poetry, and metaphors, nurtured my special connection to words and their magical ability to create different realities.
The ruptures of migration led me to embrace the revolutionary attributes of storytelling and transformed my life into a self-exploration story, a reconciliation poem.
My artistic practice is an honest reflection of my existential and sensual experience of being in the world: a conjunction of the different worlds that I have lived, loved, and feared.
At its core, my work explores the beauty and tension of existence: the presence and absence of life in all its forms, the embrace of contradictions, and the ever-changing, transformative power of art and the creative process.
Born in Tehran (1987–2005), I first stepped into the world with a curiosity for its unseen layers.
In Toronto (2005–2014), I nurtured that curiosity through a BA in Mixed Media Arts and Design, while learning to see life through the “I” of an artist.
Berlin (2014–2020) became a home of deepening, where I entered the realm of transdisciplinary arts, co-creation, and research, sensitizing myself to new ways of being and making.
Since 2020 in Potsdam, I have immersed in nature and study, pursuing an MA in Expressive Arts with a minor in psychology. Here, I began shaping workshops as living artworks and turning to film as a vessel for researching lived experience.
Now, as I pursue a PhD in Expressive Arts, I return inward, deep-diving into ancestral roots, unearthing embodied knowledge once silenced, and weaving it forward into contemporary practice.
Visit yasamanpishvaei.com for my research, education, and therapeutic work.