Parastou Forouhar

The Eyes, 2018, ongoing

Installation view: Politics of Love, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2024/25, Photo: Antje Sauer: Parastou Forouhar, The Eyes, 2018, Courtesy the artist

The artist and activist Parastou Forouhar (*1962, Tehran, IR) engages in photography, drawing, installation and animation to examine tensions prevalent in society between a sense of individuality and the pressure to conform. Politically, she is committed to the democratization of Iran, in particular to equal rights for women.

Parastou Forouhar – audio guide in plain language

The extensive wall piece entitled The Eyes, printed over a large area with an eye motif, confronts viewers with their own perception – as a subject that observes and as an object that is being observed. Through filigree lines, figures emerge within the two-dimensional eye pattern: hands, feet and heads in poses suggesting pain and suffering. All the figures cover their eyes with their hands; they withdraw their gaze both from the viewer and from the horror to which they apparently are exposed.

EINZEL- UND GRUPPENAUSTELLUNGEN U.A.:

Karin Sachs Galerie, Munich, DE (2024); Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, DE (2022); British Museum, London, UK (2021); Pi Artworks, London, UK (2016); The Québec City Biennial, Québec, CA (2017); Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE (2003)

WEBSEITE:

https://www.parastou-forouhar.de