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Shahla Moazzezi is a French-Iranian artist. She was born in December 1953. She grew up in the small town of Ali Abad Katool in the Northern part of Iran. She left Iran for France in 1971 to study in the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Toulouse and graduated from the Ecole D'architecture de Paris in 1981. She went back to Iran after her graduation and worked for a few years as an architect during the years after the Iranian revolution. She and her young family immigrated to France and have been living in Pau-Pyrenees- Atlantiques since  October 1987.

Shahla started painting with pastel during the downtime at the Persian Rug store and the Art Gallery that she founded in 1987; Le Jardin Persan.

Her works seem to have mostly got inspired by Persian Poetry and by the design of Persian rugs and Persian miniatures.

She says the dust created by pastel on her works reminds her of human's final fate as described in Omar Khayam's poems.

Her lyric-figurative style received attention from local media after her first exhibition in 1991. Her works got published in Les Femmes Artistes d'hier a aujourd'hui in 1996 and in Shahla Moazzezi by Jean Louis Depierris in 1999 and in Poesie des Couleurs by Homa Sayar.

The naivete in her work has sometimes been compared to Marc Chagal's paintings.

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