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Artist Statement: The act of making is a ritual of reclamation, a bridge between the ancient mystical rebirth of my Persian heritage and the urgent, forward-leaning inquiries of the contemporary world. At the heart of my practice is a commitment to storytelling as a subversive force, using visual narratives to map the "liminal," that threshold where the displaced self finds a home not in a geography, but in the sacred. I am deeply fascinated by how feminine power and collective memory can be woven into a visual sanctuary. By treating mysticism as a lived philosophy rather than a relic of the past, I invite the viewer to strip away the external noise and step into the internal landscapes I navigate through meditation. It is an honest attempt to prove that even in the face of loss, there is an unshakeable, cosmic geometry that connects us all to the timeless.

Mobina Nouri Ph.D

Artist Bio: Mobina Nouri (b. Isfahan, Iran) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work draws on storytelling, mysticism, poetry, and symbolism to explore identity, memory, and transformation. Her multidisciplinary practice blends calligraphy, drawing, installation, and time-based media, creating visual narratives that reflect the emotional and philosophical complexities of displacement and belonging.

Trained in Performing Arts and Design at Tehran University, Nouri later earned a PhD in Creativity Science from City University of London. Her work is deeply informed by the literary and mythological heritage of Persia, reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. Nouri’s art creates a contemplative space where the poetic and the visual converge, an invitation to return to what is sacred, intuitive, and timeless.

Nouri’s practice is rooted in visual storytelling, she inscribes poetry on skin in her Poetography series, maps cosmological rhythms in Cosmic Dance, and reimagines tales from A Thousand and One Nights in layered, symbolic compositions. Her process combines traditional hand techniques with experimental materials, often inviting viewers into ritual-like encounters.

Nouri’s work has received international recognition, including the 2019 Juror’s Choice Award from the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, the 2020 MOZAIK Future Art Award, and the 2020 “Art Saves Humanity” Juror’s Choice, selected by leading art figures including Jerry Saltz. She served as a juror for MOZAIK’s 2021 “Re-Imagining Democracy” and was an artist-in-residence at Djerassi in 2022.

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