The Anatomy of Bra

by Maryam Izadifard

Push up, there are worms inside your skin. When the underwire digs inside your flesh, these caterpillars turn into butterflies, and die in a day. When you remove it, you peel off your skin, stuck inside the lacy exterior of your breasts, that no fabric can contain. You can’t breathe easy, you are not supposed to. Has history taught you nothing?

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Maryam Izadifard is a visual artist born in Iran, in 1982.The inexpressable relationships cultivated by individuals and collectivites with their environment are at the heart of her approach, which combines drawing and painting, as well as photgrpahy, video and audio recording. A graduate of the Tehran University of Art and a Member of Montreal Artist Diversity, Maryam has exhibited her artwork in Montreal, at the University of Quebec experimental exhibition center (CDEx) and the Mekic Gallery; at the Culture of Peace Biennial, and the Jorjani Gallery in Tehran; and at the University of Westminster in the United Kingdom. She currently resides in Montreal where she is pursuing a Master’s degree at the School of Visual and Media Arts at the University of Quebec in Montreal.