Safoura Azimi is an enthusiastic artist born and raised in Tehran. She started her art education in the Art and Architecture Faculty of Azad University in Tehran, where she achieved her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1996 and following that her Master of Fine Arts in the same university in 2000.
Due to restrictions at the time in Iran, including lack of free access to join the international artistic community and limited updated artistic resources, she decided to leave her homeland in order to feed her curiosity elsewhere. Before settling down in France she participated in a course Technics and Materials in Painting in London, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, in 2000. Afterwards, she obtained her Master degree in History and Criticism in Arts at Université de Rennes2 in 2015 and her Master of Fine Arts at the same university in 2019.
Her artistic activities in Iran were mainly concentrated on painting, consisting of simple geometric shapes and delicate lines floating on a monochromic background. Her limited primary colors claim her lack of interest over expressivity in this series of works and make them resemble Russian suprematism.
In Europe her non-objective paintings turned into tridimensional constructions, giving tangible presence to the primary elements of her painting as it was, which presents also the artist’s appeal for materials and volumes. Her latest collection is mostly produced by manipulated materials and found objects, which creates playful and enjoyable arrangements and, more specifically, the artist’s engagement with post minimal art, fed by her spiritual mindset.