From a multicultural background, Persian-Azari, American and French, Tara Vatanpour currently based in Paris. Her artistic practice is multidisciplinary, using photography, installations, drawings, sculptures, paintings, ceramics, and performance. From a solid educational backgrounds in Fine Arts, she has today exhibited in the Venice Biennale, London and Paris. Her subjects of artistic research are the following : trauma, memory, immigration, and intimacy. From her own experience she researches ways to represent visually the phenomenon of trauma throughout memory, and the way we live our human lives.
Her work centers mainly around installations and performances, however in order to do so she uses paintings, sculptures, photography, video, or any material that will help her give a message to the public. The importance of Art is, she believes, to be of service to the world through using a sensitive language (relative to our senses).
