Pieta
Relief Painting
78cm x 98cm (Framed)
They baptized me with the bitter agony of my fate
Believe me, tonight, I’m deprived of happiness,
From all I’ve said and done, I’m content,
Don’t cry for me, I am the nightmare of this judge”
Lyrics Mona Borzouei
I initially named this painting “lamentation ,” but that name didn’t truly convey the essence of the pain of the survivors، families and loved ones. So, I renamed it to “Pieta,” in the name of all the lives taken on the path to freedom.
– For the the victims of the mass executions of political prisoners and Bahai believers in 1988
– For the chain murders of Iranian dissident and intellectuals 1988–98
– For the students of university dormitory raids in 1999
– For the martyrs of Green Movement in 2009
– For the martyrs of the protests 2017-2018
-For the martyrs of the bloody Aban/November 2019
– For the martyrs of Mahsa Movement since 2022
– For the nature of this land on the path of destruction ,
– For us, who carry life on our shoulders like burden!
– For us, whose veins grown out of the roots of this land, are torn from the wounds and pain!
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Say Her Name: Mahsa Amini!
Woman, Life, Freedom
- Relief Painting
- 72 cm x 92 cm (Framed)
Say Her Name: Mahsa Amini
relief painting (2022-23)-72 cm x 92 cm
Say Her Name: Mahsa Amini
relief painting (2022-23)-72 cm x 92 cm
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On 16 September 2022 began an uprising in Iran, following the death of the Iranian-Kurdish girl ‘Mahsa-Jina Amini’ in the custody of so-called morality police and for not respecting the Sharia dress-code.
The furious Iranian women cut their hair in protest of her death, which is an ancient Persian tradition for expression of collective mourning and protesting. This has also become a symbolic gesture to express solidarity with Iranian women worldwide.
Mahsa’s name has since crossed borders, languages and cultures and the trio of “Woman, Life, Freedom” has reverberated around the world.
This relief painting pays tribute to the courageous Iranian demonstrators who risk their lives in fight for freedom as well as those who stood in solidarity with them.
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Mothers of Justice !
You can be the next!
- Relief Painting
- 72 cm x 92 cm (Framed)
Mothers Of Justice
relief painting (2022-23)-72 cm x 92 cm
Mothers Of Justice
relief painting (2022-23)-72 cm x 92 cm
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Parents holding images of their children and loved ones while seeking justice has become a regular sight in Iran over the past 44 years.
This painting is dedicated to all the mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers battling for justice:
And to all the girls and boys who got blinded while protesting in the streets.
*The rainbow color stands for the words of our beloved “Kian Pirfalak”, the 9-year-old boy who was killed in the street of Izeh.
In a video that was released shortly after his death, Kian began his explanation of his invention with the words “In the name of the God of the Rainbow”.
*The texture of bodies refers to every veins and arteries in the body which have become roots in the pursuit for justice and propagated in the next generations. The roots originating from the homeland ‘Iran’ that is suffering.
*The mirrors refer to the words of Mother of Siavash, Lyla Mahdavi, who warned onlookers in the streets: ‘Your Child Can Be Next’
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Soldiers of Freedom
Stop execution in Iran
- Relief Painting
- 52 cm x 72 cm (Framed)
Soldiers Of Freedom
relief painting (2022-23)-52 cm x 72 cm
Soldiers Of Freedom
relief painting (2022-23) 52 cm x 72 cm
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The authorities in Iran have executed 4 protesters since the uprising of September 2022. These four young demonstrators were found guilty by sham trials that lasted less than a month with no access to advocate.
They became hero’s and their names are now widely known. Their execution reverberated the voice of Navid Afkari, a wrestler who also got executed in 2020 with no evidence by sham trials, whose words from behind the bars touches almost everyone:
People! It is only logical that I will fight for my life; and as per the evidence, all clues are an affirmation to my innocence. All the evidence that we have collected and everything that I am saying right now, is only here to let you know that if I ever get executed, in the 21st century and with all the human right organizations, the UN or security council or the whatever else, an innocent human being, which had tried to the best of his might and fought, to have his voice heard, was hanged.
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woman, life, freedom
We fight, we die, we take our land back!
- Relief Painting
- 52 cm x 72 cm (Framed)
Woman, Life, Freedom
relief painting (2022-23)-52 cm x 72 cm
Woman, Life, Freedom
relief painting (2022-23)-52 cm x 72 cm
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The heartbroken mothers and sisters who don’t have time to grieve are the subject of this painting. Those who were arrested attending the funeral of their loved ones, cutting their hairs on the grave and those who haven’t even received the deceased body of their loved ones.
The women, whose bravery has shaken the wall of barbarism and brutality.
The paisley pattern relates to the texture of the burial shroud (cloth) that is wrapped around the body before burial.
There are 520 paisley motifs which stands for the martyrs of this revolution. By the time this painting is made, 520 demonstrators have been killed, 70 of them are kids, according to Herana news.
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