Born: 2000, Beirut, Lebanon
Lives and works: Lausanne, Switzerland

Iman Makzume is a French-Turkish artist whose work explores relationships, identity, memory, and the female experience. By bringing together personal recollections and collective experiences, her work considers how memory influences the way we understand our bodies, ourselves, and others.

Drawing on personal observations of everyday life, she creates images and narratives that remain open-ended, using figurative imagery to explore inner states and interpersonal dynamics. Stories emerges from the relationships, tensions and contradictions between figures, gestures and their surroundings, allowing different realities to coexist within the same image. Viewers are invited to connect what they see with their own experiences.  Attachment, jealousy, vulnerability, desire, and the need to belong are recurrent themes that shape her work. These questions also extend to her own body and self-perception, which occupy a central place in her practice. The female figure becomes a way of examining how identity is shaped by relationships and our surroundings, while reflecting a sense of self that is continuously reconstructed and full of contradictions.

Her work has been presented in Demain c’est loin at the University of Lausanne (2025) and Inner Psyche at ECAV Istanbul (2024).