Born in Tehran in 1982, Shirin Salehi is a visual artist, lecturer and translator based in Madrid. Through an interdisciplinary practice that moves across printmaking, drawing, sculpture and video, Salehi investigates the poetic dimension of language through ideas such as illegible writing, erased matter and the hidden image. Trained in printmaking, her work is underpinned by an interest in incision and time, which she explores through language itself. Paying meticulous attention to the formal resolution of her pieces, she focuses on the conceptual qualities of materials, building a body of work in which restraint and austerity create the conditions for subtle conversations with the viewer..
