My name is Maryam Eskandari, I was born in Iran and live in the Netherlands-Utrecht.
I work with clay, am a sculptress…
Before sculpture I verbalized my feelings with words, but since 2000, when I touch pottery, I can shape my words into sculptures.
it gives me more freedom and satisfaction to express myself.
The excellence of clay taught me to fight against the discomforts and pains of life…
I was and “I am” like clay : fire, water, heat, cold, baked and again…
Taught me to get through the hard time in the refugee camps.
The dark period, which can be summed up in loneliness and the expectation of an unknown future;
It was in this solitude that i spent endless nights in a dark basement shaping clay to achieve my inner satisfaction.
In the same way, sculpture helped me get through the most difficult stage of my life battling a terrible disease called cancer!
The exhibited figures are the result of this period of my life…
I shape time to give them orders … “Genderless of beings in clay”!
The moments of pain, always daring, become broken limbs hands, heads, figures and bodies all “Broken”, but one can find the desire for existence and “Life”!
Resistant with the Joy of life, Smiles but Cries inside.
STUDIES : Training Dutch Ceramics Techniques Gouda – 2016-2019
EXPOSITIONS :
Dec. 2018 : “TENTOONSTELLING“ Gallery the fifth season www.vijfde-seizoen.nl Zoetemeer – Netherlands
May 2016 : “ville univers” Gallery Nicolas Flamel–216 rue Saint Martin 75003 Paris – France www.artistescontemporains.org/lieux_dart/galerie-nicolas-flamel
March 2014 : “Nommad” Gallery 52 rue Volta 75003 Paris – France www.artistessansfrontieres.com
Feb. 2019 : “Rebirth” Reigers INN– De Blauwe Reiger Almere Almere Haven Nederlands www.deblauwereigeralmere.nl
Sep 2019: Art & culture, municipality of Zeist – Netherlands
March 2018 : “Pain becomes clay“ the Almere Haven library – Netherlands
March 2017: ” Café Naderi ” De Kunst Lini -Esplanade 10, 1315 TA Almere Stad Netherlands https://kaf.nl
Avr. 2016 :”Creative Cooperation” Almere – Netherlands
Avr. 2015 : “City Cité Sans Frontières” multidisciplinary international exposition 5 rue Victor Hugo – Bourges-France www.artistessansfrontieres.com
Dec. 2013: Foundation 4 element Almere – Netherlands
Feb. 2005 & 2009: Art center “art line” Almere Stad – Netherlands
May 2008: “Dérive Circulaire” Atelier Kardiwen 118 rue de Château 75014 Paris France
March 2007-2015 “Woman in the picture” Almere Haven Library – Netherlands
March 2004 & 2005 : De Kunst Lini Esplanade 10, 1315 TA Almere Stad – Netherlands https://kaf.nl
Avril 2003 : “une pays grand comme une toile” multidisciplinary international exposition – Ville de Paris – Artistes Sans Frontières
March 2002 : Multidisciplinary international exposition “WomenDay” – Artistes Sans Frontières
PUBLICATION : Bible of sculptures – 2010 Paris – France
Poetry book : 2015 – Nederland