Through her textured relief paintings, Mani captures the moment and materializes the perception.
She has primarily focused on the world of women and aims to unveil the struggles and feelings that women experience in the outside world as well as to make harsh realities noticeable.
Obtaining her master’s degree in architecture from LUCA School of Arts in Belgium, her path as an architect and an artist has always been intertwined, with art and architecture playing complementary roles.
And as she describes; with architecture she makes a reality out of fiction and with Art, she brings the reality into the fiction and this keeps her balanced.
Mani has shown her artworks in different exhibitions in Belgium and France. Lately in the UK she presented her new and ongoing series of paintings about the recent uprising in Iran which has begun in September 2022.
My Story
I believe that my artistic impulses have been greatly influenced by witnessing my mother weaving Persian carpets.
I was a child sitting next to her and sometimes gave her thread colors she requested and arrange the balls of weaving thread according to colors. As a child I was living in a colorful garden and this had become my world.
The delicacy and elegance I witnessed her weave with are relatively vivid images that never disappear when I hold a pen in my hand, to the point that I have interpreted my paintings as carpets on the wall.
Growing up as a woman in Iran and everyday confrontation with the harsh reality has driven me back to my childhood carpet garden and I think I have taken a refuge to art to keep a balance in life.
The ‘Mahsa’ uprising in Iran since September 2022 has touched me deeply in an extent that I could not do anything for days but watching beautiful young souls getting killed in the streets , the names becoming # and one by one becoming framed photos with a black ribbon on the side.
Months of obsession, distress, and sleepless nights resulted in my new ongoing collection, “Woman Life Freedom,” about what we, as a lonely nation, are still going through.
