“Farah Pahlavi: Queen of Art and Culture”
Farah Pahlavi played a significant role in developing the art scene in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Farnoush was born in Iran but she lives and works in London. She graduated from the Art Academy London in July 2019. Her work has been influenced by Iran's revolution, war, religion, and political situation. Her practice consists of installation and performance art in which she explores different materials from organic to man-made, using religious and cultural symbols. Her material language encompasses human hair, fabric, feather, metal, clay, concrete, ice, tarmac, and read-made objects which she uses to create tensions and relationships between organic and non-organic matter.
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Imago Mundi Collection: 149 artworks, 109 artists, men, and women, young and established, all Iranian.
Interview with Bita Fayyazi
Rather than a sculptor, installation artist, or ceramicist engaged in a somewhat mystic relationship with her materials, Bita Fayyazi (b. 1962, Iran) is an artist who works within a more performative and markedly social practice. Beginning in the mid-1990s, her artistic interventions challenged the official definitions of art that were often circulated in Tehran at that time. Fayyazi struggled to show her work amidst an atmosphere of traditionalism, academics, and the influx of 1990s conceptual art from abroad.
Mojtaba Adibi
Mojtaba Adibi was born in Mashhad and lives in Tehran. He started art activities by caricaturing for the local Khorasan Province (which is a province in northeastern Iran) press.
Babak Haghi
Born in 1982 in Tabriz, Babak Haghi is a professional Iranian visual artist. He started professional photography in 2012 with
Maryam Firuzi
Maryam Firuzi is a multimedia artist who works and lives in Tehran. Although her academic training was in Film (B.A) and Film Studies (M.A), graduating from Tehran Art University in 2016, her artistic field is not limited to filmmaking.
Interview with Raoof Haghighi
Raoof Haghighi is an Iranian-born British artist, known for his portraiture and realism. He was born in 1976 in Shiraz,
Esmael Bahrani
Esmail Bahrani, born in 1978, is an Iranian artist. He entered Tehran University of Art and Architectural, but quickly left school
Interview with Boshra
Born in 1985 in Shiraz, Boshra is an Iranian poet, writer, actress, and model who was first introduced to Persian literature by her grandfather before starting primary school. She developed a precocious love of poets such as Iradj Mirza and Parvin E'tesami whose work inspired her to write her own poetry from a young age. Boshra later studied Children's Literature and Theatre at the BIHE University and eventually left Iran for the USA in 2009 where she currently resides.
Aisan Hoss
Aisan Hoss was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. She is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran, Iran. She started studying and performing Iranian dances at the age of twelve and teaching at the age of eighteen. While doing her BS in Business Management from Azad University in Tehran, Aisan attended a study-abroad English language program in London where she first encountered contemporary dance.