Gazelle Pezeshkmehr is a practicing studio artist, trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Netherlands and Einar Granum College of Fine Arts in Norway. She specializes in staged and conceptual photography.
Drawing inspiration from subject matters revolving mental health and identity, Gazelle is an experimental and passionate illustrator of the internal sphere of the human experience. The work is dark yet colorful, textured with metaphors, enigmatic of nature and bizarre. She references her own anecdotal testimonials of surviving severe mental illness, seeking broader insight of the extremes of human emotion while she challenges stigmas.
Through the application of the surrealism theory, she is able to submit creations of alternative worlds that embodies the complex domain of the human psyche, where the borders between dreams and reality are often blurred and entwined. Her work inquires the complexities of identity, trauma, depression, anxiety, spirituality and mania.
Her final images appear static, as if she has actually been able to freeze the moment. Her arrangements often seem capricious, inviting the viewer to move into a space of speculation, where she creates an angsty and raw circumstance for the viewer to discover their own empirical resonance in it, relying on our need for seduction, poetry and the grotesque.
