Armineh Negahdari, Interview - Open Space #18

A graduate of the University of Tehran and the École Supérieure d’Art de Clermont-Ferrand, she is now based in Bordeaux, where she has developed a practice centered on drawing. For this exhibition, the artist presents a new body of drawings in various formats, produced over the past few months.

For Armineh Negahdari, drawing is more than a language; it is an experience – a way of life that responds to an urgency, an immediate necessity. She works without prior planning, immersed in an intense flow in which the hand – guided by intuition and hesitation – precedes the idea. The line emerges, driven by a physical commitment, generating images that are at once powerful and fragile, in pursuit of what she describes as “a physicality as credible as a body, as powerful as a mountain.”