Sharzadian’s practice is rooted in the Persian art of āyeneh-kāri, developing sculptural mirrors to invite a new perspective and direct light into forgotten corners.
🪩 Atelier based in Lisboa, Portugal
Sharzadian's Previous Exhibitions:- Lisbon Private exhibition "Explosion of Expression" - June 2023- "Chamber of Curiosity" commissioned installation permanently exhibited in Tangier - May 2024- Lisbon Design Week - June 2024- Cedruscurated exhibition at Lisbon Art & Design Week - June 2025- Barcelona Soho House August 5 workshop on Ainekari- Soho house cities without houses workshop on ainekari in Lisbon: October 22, 2025- Artist Residency in La Tampera Burgandy, France August 9-30- Cedrus reCurated exhibition, November 2025- “Corte” exhibition by The CodMarket Gallery Lisbon, November 22- Solo Exhibition “ROSHAN” at SAFRA: December 15, 2025
Artist TimelapseDurational live performanceArtist Timelapse is a durational live performance in which Iranian artist Sharzadian relocates her studio practice into the public space of an event. Encased within a self-defined bubble, the artist spends the duration of the performance painting, reading and writing poetry, moving, resting, and speaking to herself — inhabiting the rhythms of creation as they unfold in real time.The work functions as a living timelapse: a slow, continuous accumulation of gestures, thoughts, and materials that reveal the often unseen temporal and emotional labor of artistic practice. What is usually private becomes visible, while remaining protected by clearly defined boundaries.Sharzadian’s broader practice combines mirror, painting, and sculptural forms to explore reflection, fragmentation, and presence. In Artist Timelapse, the body becomes the primary medium — a reflective surface through which internal dialogue, language, and movement materialize over time.Audience interaction is intentionally limited and occurs only at specific moments, determined by the artist’s physical position within the space. When seated in designated positions, visitors may request a poem to be written for them, or a poem to be read and interpreted. Outside of these moments, the performance remains observational.As an offering, Artist Timelapse operates as a site-responsive live artwork that unfolds throughout an event, providing a sustained artistic presence rather than a scheduled spectacle. It creates an atmosphere of attentiveness and slowness, inviting audiences to witness creation without interruption.The performance is adaptable in duration and spatial configuration, and is suitable for cultural events, exhibitions, festivals, and curated brand or design contexts seeking a live artistic intervention that privileges process, intimacy, and time.Sharzadian is an Iranian artist based in Lisbon.
Artist Statement
My work examines how reflection structures perception. Using mirror, light, and geometry, I construct forms that question what is seen and what is assumed. Each surface functions as an active space — one that absorbs, fractures, and redefines its surroundings.Truth, in this context, is not singular. It emerges through the intersection of perspectives — a composite of many realities. The mirror becomes an instrument of that multiplicity, revealing that perception is always in flux.Drawing from the Persian tradition of mirror architecture, my work extends its original purpose: to dissolve the boundary between self and space. Reflection becomes a material of inquiry — a way to redirect attention from object to experience.Through painting and constructed form, I explore how light behaves when given structure, and how the viewer’s movement completes the work. The result is not an image, but a shifting encounter — a moment where form and perception briefly align.
Get in touchSchedule a studio visit to explore the works in person and commission a piece.Studio📍Based in Lisbon
Open to international projectsEmail sharzadian at gmail dot com
WORKSHOPS
| - Wearable Mirror Art Workshop
January 15In this workshop, Sharzadian will guide you in creating a wearable mirror art on a tie.
• Max size: 5 × 10 cm
• Duration: 3 hours
• Price: €75
• Participants: Limited to 10
Reservation via MBWay or Revolut secures your place.
|| - Decorative Mirror Art Workshop
By appointment only
This workshop focuses on creating a mirror artwork for the home. Sharzadian will guide you through designing and constructing a piece that can be displayed on the wall or a table.
• Size: up to 25 × 20 cm
• Duration: 3 hours total
• Participants: Limited to 5
• Reservation via MBway or revolut: €120
Mirrorwork Workshop — Lisbon StudioA Workshop on Persian mirror art by Sharzadian
In Persian architecture, āine-kāri (mirror work) converted palaces into poetry through millions of geometric fragments of reflection.
From the Venetian monopoly to the war and peace rooms of the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles, from royal salons to whispered treaties that ended empires—mirrors have seen it all.Sharzadian is a Persian artist whose narrative-driven practice is shaped by her lived experience across California, Paris, Lisbon, and Tehran. Working primarily with reflective surfaces, she constructs poetic dialogues between shadow, form, and reflection—each offering a distinct yet interwoven fragment of truth.Her sculptural work draws on Ainekari, the intricate mirrorwork tradition found in ancient Persian architecture, reinterpreting it through a contemporary lens. By layering light, absence, and perspective, Sharzadian invites viewers into a space where reality is never singular, but refracted—seen differently depending on where one stands.
Paintings
Sharzadian’s portraits are a layered and poetic exploration of the human experience in acrylic paint, pastel oil and mixed media
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
Top: Fire drops in the sea 230 cm x 100cmBottom left: 150 cm x 60 cmBottom right: 90 x 50
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
Feminine
150 cm x 150 cm
€750
"Shooride Sar"
Acrylic & pastel oil on canvas
€1000
Purchase online or at the studio
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
Non binary
150 cm x 60 cm
€650
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
70 cm x 50cm
€350Frame from ROSHAN series mirror on wood €380
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
150 cm x 100cm
€420
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
70 cm x 50cm
€320
Pastel oil & acrylic on heavy paper
Shams
150 cm x 60 cm
€470
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
The contradictions
150 cm x 60 cm
€650
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
ER
75 cm x 50 cm
€330
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
Nude
75 cm x 50 cm
€320
Janane
Pastel oil & acrylic on Canvas
The Janan
80 cm x 60 cm
€950
Mirrored Weight sculpture
35 cm x 6cm
€900
Pastel oil & acrylic on paper
75 x 50cm
€320Frame from ROSHAN mirror series: mirror on wood
€380
Mirrors >2026 Hovering Mirror Sculptures 2025 Modular Mirrors ROSHAN 2024 Pyramids 2023 Boxes & Trays 2022 Wall Art
"The Big Bang"
Mirror on wood
75 cm x 95 cm
Available 🪩 €2100
"Light Runs with the wind"
Mirror on wood
60 cm x 60 cm
SOLD
"The Body of Flow"
Mirror and painting on wood
120 cm x 95 cm
Available 🪩 €1800
"The Waterfall"
Mirror on wood
90 cm x 90 cm
Sold
"The Mirage"
Mirror on wood
200 cm x 120 cm
Sold
Box of light: Zan (Woman)
Mirror on wood with painting behind glass
32 cm x 32 cm
Available 🪩 €900
Box of Light: The Infinite
Sold
Box of light: Tetris tray
Mirror on wood mixed with Murano glass
32 cm x 32 cm
Available 🪩 €900
"The three prisms"
Mirror on wood
50 cm x 45 cm
45 x 30 cm
25 x 40 cm
This series is sold.
You may request a prism based on your custom sizes.
Roshan: Dor-gard
75cm x 80cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €450
Roshan: Miyan
55cm x 30cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €400
Roshan: Piche
100 cm x 45 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €850
Roshan: Pol
90 cm x 5 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €450
Roshan: Gozar
100 cm x 50 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €480
Roshan: Goushre
50 cm x 50 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €400
Segoosh
50 cm x 50 cm x 50cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €400
Vazneh
32 cm x 5 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €600
Dast
25 cm x 25 cm
Mirror on wood
Available 🪩 €1100
Series V: 2025-2026These series incorporate mirror elements or are accompanied by mirror sculpture as an integral narrative component.
"Sodagar"
Acrylic, mixed media and mirrror on plexiglass
€1200 Available at the studio
"The Second Valley"
Acrylic & pastel oil and mirror on canvas
At CedrusCurated Exhibition 2025
€950
Untitled
Acrylic, mirror & engraving on plexiglass
€950Two sides of the plexiglass behold different narratives with one unique statement of the shadow of the work*corresponding painting on paper available
The dancing dervish
Acrylic, pastel oil canvas
Mixed with a sculpture of a mirrored prism fixed on canvas
€1200Janane
Sculpture, Mirror on wood
35 cm x 6 cm
€850
The Heart of One
Acrylic, pastel oil and mirror canvas
€1100
بیانیه هنرمند
شهرزادیان«سایه، بازتاب است.»آثار شهرزادیان در گفتوگویی شاعرانه و عمیق میان سایه و نور شکل میگیرند؛ جستوجویی در مرزهای آنچه دیده میشود و آنچه پنهان میماند. او در پیوندی میان نقاشی، مجسمه و اینستالیشن، تکنیکهای سنتی آینهکاری را با زبان معاصر روایت درمیآمیزد.در نقاشیهایش، شهرزادیان به قدرت مفهومی و روایی سایه میپردازد؛ سایه برای او صرفاً غیاب نیست بلکه راوی حقیقتهای پنهان است. وقتی این مفاهیم بر فرمهای مجسمهوار سوار میشوند، بازتابها تغییر میکنند، با حضور مخاطب در هم میآمیزند و مرز میان اثر و تماشاگر را از میان برمیدارند.مخاطب در آثار او صرفاً بیننده نیست، بلکه بخشی از اثر میشود؛ با هر حرکت، زاویه دید دگرگون میشود، سایهها گسترده میشوند و بازتابها با نور، فضا و حضور مخاطب تغییر میکنند. در این جابهجاییهاست که پرسشی بنیادی پیش روی ما قرار میگیرد: حقیقت کدام است؟ سایه، بازتاب یا تصویری که از خود میشناسیم؟شهرزادیان با الهام از اسطورهها و تلفیق آن با تجربه زیسته امروز، آینهکاری ایرانی را به بیانیهای زنده و شخصی تبدیل میکند؛ آینه نه صرفاً برای بازتاب چهره بلکه برای مکاشفه در لایههای درونی و داستانهای فراموششده. هر اثر، قصهای است از انعکاسهایی که میان سایه و نور، خودآگاهی میآفرینند.آثار او ما را به بازنگری در آنچه واقعیت میپنداریم دعوت میکنند؛ سفری میان لایههای ناپیدای ادراک، جایی که اسطوره، حافظه و اکنون در بازی بیپایان سایهها و نور با یکدیگر تلاقی میکنند.
Artist Statement
“Shadow is reflection.”In Shadow is Reflection, Sharzadian orchestrates a compelling visual meditation on the layered nature of reality. Through sculptural compositions of mirror mosaics—rooted in the traditional craft of Iranian ayeneh-kari yet reimagined within a contemporary aesthetic—she invites us into a conversation between light and its absence, between what is seen and what is sensed.Suspended on sheets of transparent acrylic, each form is incomplete in isolation. It is only when illuminated that the work activates its full presence: casting a shadow, reflecting its surroundings, and fragmenting reality into kaleidoscopic refractions. What emerges is a choreography of perception—three iterations of the same truth rendered simultaneously in form, reflection, and shadow.The mirror, often perceived as a symbol of clarity, here becomes a site of distortion. It reflects not the object itself, but what stands before it—shifting, multiplying, abstracting. The shadow, conversely, offers coherence through silhouette: a unified shape defined by absence. And the sculptural form, hovering in between, acts as the axis through which both forces unfold.Sharzadian’s work resists binary thinking. Light and shadow are not opposites; reflection is not merely imitation. In this series, truth is plural. Each facet—mirror, void, contour—holds its own validity. They do not contradict one another, but rather co-exist, layered and interdependent.Shadow is Reflection is not just an aesthetic gesture—it is a philosophical one. It reclaims fragmentation as honesty, distortion as clarity, and absence as presence. In a world increasingly shaped by singular narratives, Sharzadian offers a quiet but radical invitation:
to see from multiple angles, to hold paradox, and to understand that reality is a mosaic—always shifting, always true.
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