Sharzadian creates a dialogue between shadow, light, and reflection—where glass, paint, and mirror converge to reveal shifting layers of narrative.
Previous Exhibitions:
Lisbon Private exhibition "Explosion of Expression" - June 2023"Chamber of Curiosity" a sculptural installation commissioned by House of Beautiful Business permanently exhibited in Tangier - May 2024Lisbon Design Week - June 2024
Cedruscurated exhibition at Lisbon Art & Design Week - June 2025Barcelona Soho House August 5 workshop on Ainekari
Artist Residency in La Tampera Burgandy, France August 9-30Upcoming Exhibition:
"Shadow is Reflection" - Read The Artist Statement
For commissions and collaboration get in touch.SHARZADIAN is a multidisciplinary artist open to creating work that brings out the poetics of lightand shadow.📩 Email: contact at sharzadian dot com
📍Based in Lisbon | Tehran
Available for international projects
The Mirrored Feather
A Workshop on Persian mirror art by SharzadianThe feather is a three-part immersive workshop led by Sharzadian, blending storytelling, mythology, and mirror art inspired by Persian tradition.In the first part, Sharzadian leads a collective storytelling performance, where guests step into the mystical journey of The Conference of the Birds by Attar—each voice becoming part of the unfolding path.The second part invites each participant to create a small mirror-based sculpture, drawing from the traditional Persian art of ainekari. This act becomes an invitation to embark on the journey Attar proposes—a path toward discovering love and the truth of it reflected in every heart.The experience closes with a final myth-inspired story and a quiet reflection on how to carry the mirror—not just as an object, but as a symbol of inner fire, love, and openness.click here to invite Sharzadian to host the workshop
From the Venetian monopoly to the war and peace rooms of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, from royal salons to whispered treaties that ended empires—mirrors have seen it all.Sharzadian is a Persian artist whose narrative-driven practice is shaped by her lived experience across California, Paris, Lisbon, and Tehran. Working primarily with reflective surfaces, she constructs poetic dialogues between shadow, form, and reflection—each offering a distinct yet interwoven fragment of truth.Her sculptural work draws on Ainekari, the intricate mirrorwork tradition found in ancient Persian architecture, reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens. By layering light, absence, and perspective, Sharzadian invites viewers into a space where reality is never singular, but refracted—seen differently depending on where one stands.
“Each work invites the viewer to become both subject and object—caught in the interplay of shadow and reflection.”
بیانیه هنرمند
شهرزادیان«سایه، بازتاب است.»آثار شهرزادیان در گفتوگویی شاعرانه و عمیق میان سایه و نور شکل میگیرند؛ جستوجویی در مرزهای آنچه دیده میشود و آنچه پنهان میماند. او در پیوندی میان نقاشی، مجسمه و اینستالیشن، تکنیکهای سنتی آینهکاری را با زبان معاصر روایت درمیآمیزد.در نقاشیهایش، شهرزادیان به قدرت مفهومی و روایی سایه میپردازد؛ سایه برای او صرفاً غیاب نیست بلکه راوی حقیقتهای پنهان است. وقتی این مفاهیم بر فرمهای مجسمهوار سوار میشوند، بازتابها تغییر میکنند، با حضور مخاطب در هم میآمیزند و مرز میان اثر و تماشاگر را از میان برمیدارند.مخاطب در آثار او صرفاً بیننده نیست، بلکه بخشی از اثر میشود؛ با هر حرکت، زاویه دید دگرگون میشود، سایهها گسترده میشوند و بازتابها با نور، فضا و حضور مخاطب تغییر میکنند. در این جابهجاییهاست که پرسشی بنیادی پیش روی ما قرار میگیرد: حقیقت کدام است؟ سایه، بازتاب یا تصویری که از خود میشناسیم؟شهرزادیان با الهام از اسطورهها و تلفیق آن با تجربه زیسته امروز، آینهکاری ایرانی را به بیانیهای زنده و شخصی تبدیل میکند؛ آینه نه صرفاً برای بازتاب چهره بلکه برای مکاشفه در لایههای درونی و داستانهای فراموششده. هر اثر، قصهای است از انعکاسهایی که میان سایه و نور، خودآگاهی میآفرینند.آثار او ما را به بازنگری در آنچه واقعیت میپنداریم دعوت میکنند؛ سفری میان لایههای ناپیدای ادراک، جایی که اسطوره، حافظه و اکنون در بازی بیپایان سایهها و نور با یکدیگر تلاقی میکنند.
Artist Statement
“Shadow is reflection.”In Shadow is Reflection, Sharzadian orchestrates a compelling visual meditation on the layered nature of reality. Through sculptural compositions of mirror mosaics—rooted in the traditional craft of Iranian ayeneh-kari yet reimagined within a contemporary aesthetic—she invites us into a conversation between light and its absence, between what is seen and what is sensed.Suspended on sheets of transparent acrylic, each form is incomplete in isolation. It is only when illuminated that the work activates its full presence: casting a shadow, reflecting its surroundings, and fragmenting reality into kaleidoscopic refractions. What emerges is a choreography of perception—three iterations of the same truth rendered simultaneously in form, reflection, and shadow.The mirror, often perceived as a symbol of clarity, here becomes a site of distortion. It reflects not the object itself, but what stands before it—shifting, multiplying, abstracting. The shadow, conversely, offers coherence through silhouette: a unified shape defined by absence. And the sculptural form, hovering in between, acts as the axis through which both forces unfold.Sharzadian’s work resists binary thinking. Light and shadow are not opposites; reflection is not merely imitation. In this series, truth is plural. Each facet—mirror, void, contour—holds its own validity. They do not contradict one another, but rather co-exist, layered and interdependent.Shadow is Reflection is not just an aesthetic gesture—it is a philosophical one. It reclaims fragmentation as honesty, distortion as clarity, and absence as presence. In a world increasingly shaped by singular narratives, Sharzadian offers a quiet but radical invitation:
to see from multiple angles, to hold paradox, and to understand that reality is a mosaic—always shifting, always true.
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