ARTISTS

Atieh Sohrabi

Aida Izadpanah

Azita Moradkhani

Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani

Roya Khadjavi Projects brings together works by 4 Iranian female artists whose works reflect personal and deeply rooted sentimental attachments to their past, through an array of styles and mediums. She displays how our memories and deeply rooted attachments reflect and shape our personal perception of beauty and our life experiences and worldview.

The Safarani sisters’ latest video paintings in Body Double introduce two important motifs new to their oeuvre, the shadow, and the rope, through which they expand boarders, bring unity between people, and work towards a peaceful universe.

Atieh Sohrabi’s works are based on female figures not defined by the beauty standards of today’s society. Appreciating people requires a deep understanding of genres of beauty, character, and value far beyond the individual appearance. Looking at herself and women around her, she presents the figures in her works as close to the women in her everyday life.

Aida Izadpanah’s, Fleurs de Perse are hand-made, fired, porcelain sculptures, interpreting flowers native to Persian gardens, as significant elements of her aesthetic upbringing. Aida embeds these flowers among her abstract forms, emphasizing hope, and the rebirth of nature.

Azita Moradkhani, through the process of casting her body, places herself in a vulnerable situation that challenges beliefs she grew up with. She mixes imagery to emphasize both inter- and dis-connections between sexual representation and national identity, between the public and the private.