Artist Statement

Artist Statement

Hamed Abbasipour 

My practice explores the mirror as a living medium—one that does not simply reflect the world, but actively reshapes perception. Through fragmentation, repetition, and light, I create works that exist in a constant state of visual transformation.

Rooted in the historic Persian tradition of mirror work, my relationship with this material began in childhood while assisting my father on architectural installations in Tehran. These early experiences shaped my understanding of mirror not only as a decorative surface, but as a spatial and perceptual phenomenon.

In my current practice, I reinterpret this tradition through a contemporary lens. By cutting and assembling mirrored fragments into abstract compositions, I disrupt the unity of the reflected image. The viewer no longer sees a fixed reflection, but a shifting and unstable one—an image that changes with movement, light, and position.

I am interested in the moment when recognition becomes uncertainty—when the viewer is confronted with a version of themselves that feels both familiar and unfamiliar. In this way, the work becomes a site of encounter between body, space, and perception.

Each piece remains incomplete without the presence of the viewer. The artwork is not static; it is activated through reflection. What emerges is not a single image, but a multiplicity of possible selves.

By bridging traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art, I seek to expand mirror work beyond its ornamental function and reposition it as a medium for conceptual and spatial exploration.

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