Maryam Takalou

I was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, and since 2019, I�ve been working and teaching as an artist and scholar in the U.S. My practice explores landscape as an ongoing process that shapes our memories and preconceptions. Drawing from Persian painting, I challenge conventional Western approaches to landscape through defamiliarization and restructuring, creating different spatial and temporal experiences. I see landscapes not as fixed realities, but as fluid spaces that can be reconsidered, transformed, and experienced differently.