10/16/2022
Parastou Forouhar (b. 1962, Tehran, Iran) is a multidisciplinary Iranian artist known for her deeply emotional photography, drawings and intricate installations that often consist of repetitive texts, forms, and signs, through which she finds catharsis- her life’s work, perhaps, is to heal the pain of having lost her parents to political assasination in 1998. aims to create these evocative spaces where she can express her feelings on the injustices of her Iranian culture, and reflect on the agony of her painful experiences at the hand of it. Her work, she has said, is about the “simultaneity of beauty and harm.”
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 • How she uses her art to shine a light on issues and as a method of personal expression and healing. Her vivid imagery draws us into her world and into her pain, allowing us to have a shared experience of the ongoing social injustice felt by Iranian women throughout the world.
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝟭 • Parastou Forouhar, Detail of Limbo (Series of 12 digital drawings), 2021, digital print on Kozo thin paper.
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝟮 • Parastou Forouhar, Limbo (Series of 12 digital drawings), 2021, digital print on Kozo thin paper.
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝟯 • Parastou Forouhar, Limbo (Series of 12 digital drawings), 2021, digital print on Kozo thin paper.
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝟰 • Parastou Forouhar, The Grass is Green, the Sky is Blue and She is Black, 2018 (photo series).
𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝟱 • Parastou Forouhar, The Grass is Green, the Sky is Blue and She is Black, 2018 (photo series).
