Pro Femina, 2023, ongoing
Pro Femina (ongoing), an ongoing series, portrays some of the brutal realities Iran has faced over the past 45 years since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, spotlighting the battle against fundamentalism and theocracy.To illustrate this ongoing fight—a struggle marked by torture, forced confessions, rape, executions, and murders of Iranian women—I created a series of acrylic paintings of landscapes and domestic settings on large, stretched canvases. These paintings reference real places where these women took their last breaths, unheard and in silence. To capture the beauty of resistance amidst brutality, I chose not to use liquid blood. Instead, I used rhinestones, red glitter, and sequins to glorify the lives of these individuals and tell the stories of thousands of women.
