Afzan Pirzade (b.1993) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Pune, working across styles and mediums with a practice that resists easy categorisation. His work moves fluidly from bold, high-impact street murals to restrained, monochromatic canvases, reflecting an instinctive adaptability and a refusal to remain visually static.

 

Perspective sits at the heart of Pirzade’s practice. Rather than offering fixed meanings, his work interrogates the space between intention and interpretation. Through deliberate choices in colour, composition, and form, he foregrounds the instability of perception, inviting viewers to confront their own role in constructing meaning. His visual language often leans into existential terrain, engaging with themes of dread, mortality, and the afterlife. Surreal and psychologically charged imagery becomes a tool to probe the subconscious, blurring the boundaries between inner worlds and external realities. The work asks uncomfortable questions about selfhood, consciousness, and what lingers beyond the visible. Although shaped by personal experience, Pirzade avoids direct self-representation. Instead, he turns toward non-verbal communication and symbolic abstraction, searching for truths that exist beyond biography. Each piece is informed by his position as both witness and participant navigating histories, inherited legacies, and the tensions of contemporary life.

 

At its core, Pirzade’s practice is an act of observation and distillation. His works operate in layers — of presence, absence, and ambiguity, balancing rational thought with philosophical inquiry. Rather than offering answers, the work opens space for reflection, drawing viewers into an ongoing confrontation with the complexities and contradictions of human experience.