BIOGRAPHY
Atoosa Wahdani (b. 1976, Tehran) is an Iranian sculptor and jewelry artist whose work engages with themes of feminine resistance, identity, and transformation through a distinctive language of form, body, and silence.
Often combining figurative sculpture with symbolic objects such as scales, coins, locks, and termeh, her pieces evoke personal and collective memory traditional Iranian fabrics like under the weight of restriction.
During the years when censorship prevented her from publicly exhibiting in Iran, Wahdani developed her artistic voice in the privacy of her studio?urning silence into form.
Her key series include The People, Numbers, Woman Now and Beyond, A Message in a Bottle, and The Lamps, which explore the female body in captivity, the persistence of memory, and the quest for freedom. She also creates conceptual jewelry as wearable, miniature versions of her sculptures ? intimate forms that carry narratives of resistance and metamorphosis.
Now based in Paris, she is a member of the Maison des Artistes in France. Her work has been exhibited in over thirty international shows across Europe and the Middle East.