Niloofar Baniasadi

Interdisciplinary artist · carpet, geometry, moving image

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Sacred Geometry of the Carpet

Video art · 2024

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Practice / Biography

A field where inherited patterns become moving systems.

Niloofar Baniasadi
Iran · 1993

Interdisciplinary Artist · Carpet Designer & Researcher · Video Artist

My artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of heritage, sacred geometry, and new media—where the algorithmic essence of Persian carpet design dialogues with fractals and the moving image. Holding a BA in Carpet Design from Shiraz University and an MA in Carpet Research from the Art University of Isfahan, I have long explored the hidden mathematical and symbolic codes within textiles, driven by the belief that “every carpet possesses a face and a voice.”

Over more than a decade of professional practice, I have conceptualized and developed classic, modern, and post-modern collections for leading carpet houses including Forouzan, Sahand and Mirmola Soraya. Since 2021, in collaboration with Platform 101 and Famori Studio, I extended this material inquiry into the digital realm, fusing textile aesthetics with glitch art, collage, and time-based media.

My video and digital works have been showcased in international exhibitions and festivals across Italy, the United States, France, Spain, the UK, and Brazil. In 2024, I was awarded the Odyssée Artist Residency at Noirlac Abbey, France, supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the ACCR.

Whether composing for high-end carpet production or orchestrating an immersive video installation, my mission remains constant: honoring the profound legacy of Iranian visual culture while translating it into dynamic, contemporary global forms.

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A Practice Built
Across Disciplines

Textile · geometry · moving image · code · memory

Textile

The carpet as material, archive and visual system.

Geometry

Repetition, symmetry and the fractal relation of part to whole.

Time

The fixed motif released into glitch, rhythm and duration.

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Moving Image

Selected video works

Sacred Geometry of the Carpet stillPlay film
01 — 2024

Sacred Geometry
of the Carpet

Pattern becomes a threshold: repetition opens, fractures and returns as light.

02 — 2025

Fractal Geometry
of the Carpet

An evolving visual field built from the mathematical logic of Iranian ornament.

Fractal Geometry of the Carpet stillPlay film

THE CARPET IS NOT A SURFACE

IT IS A SYSTEM IN MOTION

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Carpet as Field

Selected designs and woven works

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Research / Geometry

Reading the Safavid carpet through fractal geometry.

Her master's thesis, Investigating the Geometric Features of Safavid Carpets with an Approach of Fractal Geometry, studies self-similarity, scale and repetition not as static ornament but as a generative visual language.

MA
Carpet Research
Isfahan University of Art
2020–2024
BA
Carpet Design
Shiraz University
2012–2016
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Across Signals
& Cities

Selected presentations · 2022—2025

  1. Charlotte Asian Film FestivalUNC Charlotte, USA
  2. Filmmaker Sessions Vol. 8Pinewood Studios, UK
  3. Persian Glance — Magmart FestivalNaples, Italy
  4. Noirlac Abbey Art ResidencyBruère-Allichamps, France
  5. Fonlad FestivalCoimbra, Portugal
  6. Fubar Space — Glitch Art FestivalZagreb, Croatia
  7. The Wrong BiennaleSpain