Aïda Vosoughi's artistic practice consists of long-term projects. For more than a decade, her projects were inspired by the literature and pictorial tradition of the region today known as the Middle East. Behind this metaphorical language, socio-political issues were always at the heart of her projects.
For the past three years, her research has focused on the notion of landscape in contemporary art. She explores the landscape in a historical and transformative context. Landscape is no longer a framed painting on the wall, it is, rather, an ever moving and ever changing element. Through multiple phases of research, she attempts to explore the links between landscape transformation and history, geopolitics, colonialism, displacement and economics. Her projects try to illustrate how human activities have lasting impacts on the environment and the quality of life of all species, including humans. She is interested in studying the impacts of these activities on the future of the Anthropocene and the emergence of new landscapes. Using a variety of mediums and poetic language she creates semi-fictional narratives that always have a foot in reality. Transformation, light and shadow, and layering are important elements that recur in her work.
Originally from Iran, she has been living and working in Montreal since 2014. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and is currently completing a Master's degree in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM.