Mitra Tabrizian is an Iranian-British artist and filmmaker whose work questions the fractures of the contemporary world. Through unadorned cinematic photography, she has been exploring the themes of alienation, exile, and disconnection for several decades. Her works, widely exhibited internationally, are part of the collections of prestigious institutions, such as Tate Britain and the Royal Academy, which awarded her the Rose Award for Photography in 2013.
In 2021, she also received an honorary title from the Royal Photographic Society, recognizing a body of work deeply marked by personal and collective history. With The Silence of Numbers, she makes a powerful return to still photography. This series, begun in the wake of the pandemic, questions the relationship to silence, absence, and memory in a disrupted world. Inverted urban landscapes and strangely empty scenes become the visual metaphors of global disarray.
Alongside her photographic career, Mitra Tabrizian has created a remarkable cinematic body of work. Her first feature film Gholam (2018), acclaimed by critics, explores identity and exile through the journey of a mysterious taxi driver in London. She also collaborates with Booker Prize winner Ben Okri for the short film The Insider, inspired by Camus' The Stranger. She is currently preparing her second film in partnership with the British Film Institute.
Mitra Tabrizian thus builds a demanding and subtle body of work, at the border of the real and the imaginary.
