YASSI MAZANDI

The artist’s process is intuitive and engages with our energetic connections to natural elements in her work with clay, water, porcelain, and bronze. ‘Wand, to get rid of crap (2015)’ is a bronze wand, a fetish object, a ritual talisman to ‘get rid of crap’, or ward off the evil eye, keep the negative energy at bay—a precise symbol for the way that the act of creation has an inherent magic in it, the objects produced serving as symbols that have the power to transform space and experience. 

Yassi Mazandi was born in Tehran, Iran, raised in Great Britain and lives and works in Los Angeles. She describes nature and her reaction to it, both conscious and subconscious, as the driving forces behind her art. She sculpts in porcelain, clay, and bronze, and also creates works on paper and canvas. Just this year she opened a large-scale site-specific public artwork at LACMA called Language of the Birds.