Born in Iran and currently based in Italy, Shabnam Miri holds a background in theater and set design. This structural and narrative foundation ultimately shifted into a primary practice focused on painting, motion graphics, and animation.
The work is heavily informed by both Eastern and Western miniature traditions. It draws specifically from the spatial and temporal compression found in Iranian miniatures—where time and space are intertwined—recontextualizing this methodology to reflect the structures of the contemporary world.
The overarching universe tracks an interior landscape of mythology, nightmares, incomplete animal forms, and fragmented anatomies. Populated by hybrid and bizarre entities, these visuals document a state of confusion that ultimately seeks a sovereign order hidden within chaos.
