Maryam Eizadifard (born in Tehran, Iran; lives in Montreal, Canada) explores the notions of space and time inherent to immigration and uprooting. Drawing from her personal experience, she examines migratory movements through three main axes: displacement, place, and the female condition.
Her practice combines printmaking, installation, photography, and video to generate a stratigraphy of memory linked to the places she has visited.
Her work is based on the process of drifting, through which Eizadifard attempts to recreate the experience of her arrival in Canada, deliberately seeking to “lose” herself during her walks. She collects elements that define her relationship to space—more broadly, the connections individuals and communities maintain with their environments—and translates them into various material and immaterial textures that reveal their impact on bodies and memories.
The artist’s works highlight the ephemeral, the transitional, the dreamlike, and the imagined, opening a space for intercultural and humanistic reflection.
Her recent projects revolve around the geopoetic resonance of place and its potential to activate memory. Eizadifard intertwines temporalities, languages, and natural elements to explore memory, both freshly formed and deeply buried within our psyche.