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I visualize my ideas through mediums such as performance, sculpture, immersive installations and most recently painting and drawing. Though each work has a different subject and approach, my recurrent themes are the defamiliarization of familiar actions and the way material serves as a conduit or interruption of communication between people. In most of my works, I think about the human body as a receiver/viewer as well as an activator/performer, with the materials serving as a mediator for both.
These presented bodies of work evolved during quarantine. “Things That Can Happen in a Room” started in April 2020, where I began imagining ideas for future performances or sculptures on blocks of ceramic, painted with clay of different colors. This process of thinking about practical actions or objects that can be materialized in an actual space morphed over time into more surreal and psychological concepts. Stemming from the first project, the second series of paintings titled: “Permeable Possibilities'' emerged. I consider this body of work to be still in progress as the installation aspect of it will play a significant role in finalizing how these works will exist.

Roksana Pirouzmand is an Iranian artist currently living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017 and she is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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