Dorsa Asadi
b. 1992, Iran
Lives and works in Tehran, Iran.
Dorsa Asadi is a multi-media artist whose primary focus is ceramics and installation. Her works are rooted in mythology and psychology. Goddesses and female figures blend with the verdant plants into complex phantasmagoric narratives that explore both female psyche and the rich history of the ancient Mesopotamian region. Asadi is interested in folklore, alternative histories, alchemy and the LGBTQ+ movement.
Her approach to narrative is inspired by Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Claude Levi-Strauss’s theories. Asadi describes her work as a combination of psychology, mythology, and structuralism to excavate culture (which I think is the capsule of human history) as a therapy session. In her creative process, she fabricates a narrative by deconstructing mythological tales from around the world to find their similarities, then put together their frequent motives and structures in another composition or point of view. This is her way of creating an alternative history that’s not based on what the artist calls Eurocentric patriarchy.
Dorsa Asadi got her MA in Painting and BA in Ceramics from Tehran University of Art, Iran. She received a Mohsen gallery prize for her site-specific installations and Iran’s National Elites Foundation Graduate Scholarship. Her works has been shown in numerous art exhibitions in Tehran.