Yasmin Noorbakhsh
Shaghayegh
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2022
In this work I try to depict that our understanding of our surroundings is limited and we must accept the hybridity of our surroundings and our very mind. Everything around us is constantly shifting and changing, and this applies to identity and culture too. We cannot keep them fixed; it’s their nature to be in flux.
Yasmin Noorbakhsh is a Persian multi-disciplinary visual artist based in London.
Her practice examines the notion of veracity. She is particularly interested in how our understanding of events can be affected by media bias, personal and cultural projection, assumption and censorship.
Yasmin graduated from City & Guilds of London Art school in 2022 with a distinction for her MA in Fine art and was the recipient of the outstanding critical engagement prize 2022. She has been shortlisted for different prizes such as Brixton art prize 2022, Mother Art prize 2022 and Barbican Art trust Open 2022 curated by Louise Ashcroft. Yasmin has been selected for different collective shows such as Human Perspective 2021 at Cambridge University, Art on the post card 2022, Fair Art Fair for The Auction Collective and is one of the selected artists in Atrsted 99 Future Blue-Chip Artists 2023 edition.
Artist’s Statement
As a female artist and a member of the Iranian diaspora my practice is infused with my experience of liminal space and hybrid identity, and its associated uncertainty. There is a constant questioning at the core of my practice. My multifaceted layers, interweaving diverse motifs and complex surfaces, depict the state of constantly existing between two spaces; between the known and unknown; the pleasant, and unpleasant; the West and the East and how sometimes these intersect and become intertwined.
Use of geometry and grids is my way of making sense of my surroundings and creating a sense of rationality. However, my forms are not perfect. There is always erasure and this is when containers and grids fail and lose their ability to confine, or to keep safe. Geometry has become a form that leaks; and the notion of completeness becomes a subjective experience.
