We are a social species and conformism sometimes allows us to survive as a group and to function as modern society. But, by sharing her story and her artistic project Yellow Circles, Sara offers advice on how to avoid some of the worst pitfalls of conformism while choosing when and where to follow and when to go our own way.

Sara Alavi (b.1979, Tehran) is an Iranian artist based in Milan.
She studied painting at the Art Department of Alzahra University in Tehran, concluding her studies in 2002.
She moved to Rome in 2006 to continue her studies in multimedia projects at La Sapienza University, which she completed in 2010.
Since 2011 she lives and works in Milan where she received her second level Degree in Painting at Accademia Di Belle Arti di Brera. She has participated in group exhibitions and she had several solo exhibitions.
She won Terna prize in 2015 in Italy.

In most of her works she tries to face the status of precariousness as a possible value.


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