Bita Fayyazi (born 1962, Tehran) lives and works in Tehran. Rather than a sculptor, installation artist or ceramicist, engaged in some mystic relationship with her materials. Fayyazi is an artist who works within a more performative and markedly social practice.Each of Fayyazi’s work has its roots in a form of participative social sculpture of gathering whatever materials are readily available. She also brings together artists and non-artistically inclined collaborators who can wrap and entwine, paint and cast.In addition to bringing her work to the streets and abandoned buildings of Tehran, Fayyazi has also presented major installations and performances internationally. She participated in the Iranian Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 and has exhibited at La Maison Rouge, Paris (2016), Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris (2008 and 2010), the Museum of Modern Art, Freiburg (2007) and the Pergamon Museum, Berlin (2008), among others.
