Maryam Dehbozorgi ARTICUL CTION A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue been the only motivation in my journey. I perpetual, tangible and familiar objects in my started my career studying graphic design in life. The photos were reliable documents and which the process of visual communication narrators that I wanted to distort them so that took place through image, space, color and I could break down their frameworks and typing; A visual language that aims to connect coherence; In fact, I wanted to portray my new with a specific audience, but it has never been reality by distorting and manipulating the enough for me to create advertisements and photos that were the result of recorded reality make dialogue with only a specific group of in a moment of time in order to create a people. I wanted to share my inner concerns dialogue between me, my thoughts and with a wider group of people, free from any feelings with the audience. Thus, with the imposition of taste and limited to a desire to change the photos, I combined them conventional technique, and to establish a new with other objects such as yarn, plastic,... and connection and action between the "I" and the even color, and it was this research process in "other". For this reason, after graduating from the use of various everyday objects which is graphic design, it took me quite a few years to accompanied by images, that change my path find my place as an artist in the art world. to experience and the use of Various artistic Eventually attending an art class gave me the styles. So finally it can be said that in my work, opportunity to find my artistic path by letting this search and surfing between different go of my thoughts on paper and making media has started with the same enthusiasm various collages. Since I use a variety of media for exploring and experimenting with photos.. to produce my works, I decided to continue my The body of works that we have selected for studies in painting; It is a vast world of this special edition of ARTiculAction — and techniques, colors and experiences that I was that our readers have already started to get to able to learn during my M.A. know in the introductory pages of this article You are a versatile artist and your practice —has at once captured our attention for the encompasses Photography, Video, Collage way you invite the viewers to explore the and Graphic Design: what does direct you to concept of the Self, engaging the viewers into such cross disciplinary approach? In particular, deep emotional engagement: when walking are there any experiences that did particularly our readers through your usual setup and help you to develop yourattitude to process, would you tell us how do you experiment? develop your ideas? Maryam Dehbozorgi: Photos and images are Maryam Dehbozorgi: For me, exploring an important part of my works. I have been photographs was a way to find the meaning of interested in photos since I was a child, identity and self. In my early works (collages flipping through family photo albums and and videos) and in my collection “personal watching old movies has always fascinated me, photos” (4 * 3), I used my own photos as part sometimes I passed my free time and of the composition of the works; For me, it loneliness looking at photos over and over was a kind of exploration of the meaning of again. That is the reason the initial works I "self" and a kind of return to the inner world made were with the help of photos; those to discover how to express my inner desires,