Mahnaz is an interdisciplinary artist and designer working across painting, photography, performance, and surface design. Her practice draws on Iranian visual heritage, particularly Persian calligraphy and ornamental traditions, translating their forms, rhythms, and patterns into a contemporary visual language for textile design. Through processes of reinterpretation and reimagining, she revisits elements that have gradually faded from collective memory, bringing overlooked forms and visual traditions into new contexts. Her work explores how cultural heritage can be reimagined, revived, and translated into contemporary design through abstraction, repetition, rhythm, and movement.

In her paintings, Mahnaz examines the emotional and perceptual disconnection of contemporary humans from time, beauty, and nature—a condition shaped by the distancing of lived experience, cultural memory, and shared roots from everyday life and collective identity. This rupture reveals a crisis of both individual and social identity, highlighting how former aesthetic values, cultural traditions, and systems of meaning are collapsing and being redefined in the contemporary world.