Description
Title
Toranj (Sun)
Year
2022
Size
33,86
x 33,86
x 1,18 inch
86 x 86 x 3 cm
86 x 86 x 3 cm
Technique
Spray Paint on handmade Ghalamkar stretched
Rarity
Unique Work
About the artist
Nafir aims to reintroduce the woman in the Iranian public space. By stenciling unveiled faces of Iranian women on centuries-old carpets and pasting them in the street, he uses a traditional medium, often associated with religion and certainly with tradition, to depict bold women living in a repressive society and daring to confront the judgment of the passing crowd, the taboos of a regime whose rigorist islam forbids such practice and iconography but also aims to rejuvenate a pre-islamic past and reconnect with Persia's old history.
