Born in Tehran in 1982, Shirin Salehi is a visual artist, art educator and translator living in Madrid. With an interdisciplinary oeuvre that explores media such as printmaking, drawing, sculpture and video, Shirin Salehi investigates the poetic dimension of language based on ideas such as illegible writing, erased matter, and hiddenness in images. Trained in the field of graphics, her work is concerned with the nuances of time and imprint, exploring both within language itself. Taking great care in the formal resolution of the works, she pays special attention to the conceptual qualities of the materials, constructing a body of work where contention and austerity present the tempo that interests her in order to open subtle conversations with the viewer...
