Sissi Farassat (b. 1969, Tehran, Iran) is a Vienna-based artist whose work explores the relationship between photography, craft, and the construction of identity. Since the early 1990s, Farassat has transformed photographic prints through meticulous handwork—embroidering, piercing, and embellishing images with beads, sequins, crystals, and thread. Through these labor-intensive interventions, she shifts photography from a reproducible image into a unique object, blurring the boundaries between photograph, textile, and sculpture.
Often working with self-portraits, family photographs, and vernacular imagery, Farassat examines themes of memory, femininity, and cultural heritage while drawing on both Persian decorative traditions and European photographic history. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally and is held in major public collections including the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Fotomuseum Winterthur, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.