Born in Tehran in 1982, Shirin Salehi is a visual artist, lecturer and translator based in Madrid. Through her interdisciplinary practice, which explores media such as printmaking, drawing, sculpture and video, Shirin Salehi investigates the poetic dimension of language, drawing on concepts such as illegible writing, erased matter and the hidden image. Trained in the field of printmaking, her work is underpinned by an interest in incision and time, exploring both through language itself. Paying meticulous attention to the formal resolution of her pieces, she focuses particularly on the conceptual qualities of the materials, building a body of work where restraint and austerity set the pace she seeks to open up subtle conversations with the viewer...
