Amir Mobed, a contemporary artist, has creative experience in various fields. Sculpture, installation, performance, body art, and environmental art are among these experiences. Most of his works revolve around the theme of violence and suffering. Mobed was born in Shahrood. He became interested in art during his teenage years, and after finishing middle school, he entered the newly established Shahrood Conservatory and thus began his art education. In the second year of the conservatory, he went to Monir and Mehdi Ghanbeigi's workshop for art training and financing. He became familiar with world art trends and methods through this pair of painters and sculptors who studied in England. This period deeply impacted the thought and perspectives of Mobed. In 1995, he continued his painting course at the Islamic Azad University of Tehran. Simultaneously with the university classes at the Charsoo Art Institute, he learned more about contemporary art in the theoretical and practical workshops of Ziyai and Ghahremani. The effects of this acquaintance were reflected in Mobed's thesis, and he presented his final project as an installation. After graduation, he participated in the third Biennial of Tehran sculpture with this collection and won the third prize.
As we said at the beginning, Mobed is an experimental artist who uses unusual and diverse mediums to realize his ideas. The material and spontaneous behavior of materials has played a prominent role in the formation of his works. For example, we can mention the "Mushrooms" installation performed in the Museum of Contemporary Arts in 2002. In this installation, twelve thousand plaster mushrooms were installed in the museum's garden within a week. Or in "running with fire," he created large patterns of fire on the earth's surface using fuel streaks. Or in the work of "The Thinker, Auguste Rodin," he dripped thousands of pieces of molten metal on the surface of a steel panel and created a motif of random shapes. In Mobed's "candles" project, 14,000 candles were arranged on the bottom of the pool. Or in the arrangement titled "Virginity," a large number of rotten apples were combined with hair, paper towels, and white spray and arranged on the floor of Paris's 1 Sine Gallery. As we see in most of these works, the materials' nature and their natural transformation play as much a role in the formation of the work as the intention and will of the artist. Mobed has also had experiences in the field of body art. In 2013, in a performance titled "Virus" in Paris, the hairs of different parts of the artist's body were tied to the walls of a room using cotton strings, and the artist remained crucified for a long time. In the performance of "Come Caress Me," Mobed covered its head and stood in front of a sable. The audience could aim at the artist with a shotgun on the stage and shoot him. The main focus of this type of Mobed's work is the audience's decision and action in applying violence and facing their mental processes and internal challenges in such a situation and generalizing it to other areas of life. An experience repeated in performances such as "Grain Field."