16/02/2025
Shohreh Haghighi: Fire and Bloom
Shohreh Haghighi shapes clay as if reviving something ancient, something lost yet waiting to return. Her hands reclaim what women in Iranian ceramics have long been denied—not just space, but fire itself. She knows fire is not eternal; it must be fed, guarded, kept alive.
In her world, flowers are not delicate ornaments; they are survivors of the kiln, seared into permanence. In Iranian culture, flowers bear names, carry meanings, echo the lives of women. Haghighi does not simply sculpt them—she forges them, as if tempering steel, as if reawakening voices from the earth.
Her work is a quiet defiance, a luminous act of creation. From clay and flame, she shapes not just forms, but a testament: to persistence, to transformation, to the inextinguishable ember of those who have always belonged.
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