farzaneh, Author at Farzaneh Najafi

From Aligned with Nature Series, 2023.

Nava, Haraz Road, Mazandaran. Iran. 2023. Photographer: Mohammad Vakhideh, Farzaneh Najafi

From Line Series. 2023.

Nava. Haraz Road. Mazandara. Iran. Photographer: Mohammad Vakhideh

Performer: Mohammad Vakhideh/ Photographer: Farzaneh Najafi

From Line Series. 2023.

Nava. Haraz Road. Mazandaran. Iran. Photographer: Mohammad Vakhideh

I was Water.

Azo Plain.Haraz Road.Mazandaran. Iran. Photographer: Mohammad Vakhideh

I was born in Iran and spent 8 years of my most beautiful days of childhood and teenage under the horrible shadow of the Iran-Iraq war. The word “war” always reminds me of my childish dreams which turned into nightmares. Painfully, what is happening in Ukraine today is for me a deadly repetition of the cries of children, mothers and fathers whose homeland has been devastated by the enemy’s tanks. The presented work is a combination of fingers molded from meta stone powder (Jesmonite powder) along with a cartridge case that is left over from the Iran-Iraq war. The fingers in this work are a symbol of the people who fought for the freedom of their land and lost their lives under the barrage of enemy weapons. The cartridge case installed in the work upside down, in addition to being a symbol of war, also symbolize the peace and the end of war.

Dimensions of the art work: 12 .12. 22 cm

Spring in my hand.

Polure, Iran, 2023, photo taken by me.

Stop the War

I was born in Iran and spent 8 years of my most beautiful days of childhood and teenage under the horrible shadow of the Iran-Iraq war. The word “war” always reminds me of my childish dreams which turned into nightmares. Painfully, what is happening in Ukraine today is for me a deadly repetition of the cries of children, mothers and fathers whose homeland has been devastated by the enemy’s tanks.The performance “Stop the War” is carried out to support brave Ukrainians. In this performance that took 2 hours and 40 minutes, two of my students addressed Russia by writing “Stop the War” using black ink and 6 brushes. To perform this at first thin brushed were used and the medium brushes. It must be noticed that the performing method is adapted from the performance of Chines artist Zhang Huan with the title of “family tree”.