Parastou Forouhar
| Parastou Forouhar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 54–55) Tehran, Iran |
| Education |
University of Tehran, College of Art Offenbach, Germany |
| Known for | Political art |
| Website | http://www.parastou-forouhar.de/ |
Parastou Forouhar (born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian installation artist who lives and works out of Frankfurt, Germany. Forouhar’s art reflects her criticism of the Iranian government and often plays with the ideas of identity. Her artwork expresses a critical response towards the politics in Iran and Islamic Fundamentalism. The loss of her parents fuels Forouhar’s work and challenges viewers to take a stand on war crimes against innocent citizens. Forouhar's work has been exhibited around the world including Iran, Germany, Russia, Turkey, England, United States and more.
The daughter of political activist Parvaneh Forouhar and politician Dariush Forouhar, Parastou was born in 1962 in Tehran, Iran. Her father critiqued the Iranian government and he founded and led the Hezb-e-Mellat-e Iran (Nation Party of Iran), which was a pan-Iranist opposition party in Iran. Her parents were stabbed in their home in the November of 1998, and Parastou relocated to Germany in 1991, where she has continued her work. She lives in exile because she is considered a political threat by the Iranian government.After her parents death, Parastou channeled her grief into her art, her art explores topics from democracy to woman's rights to her parents murder.
Parastou studied Art at the University of Tehran from 1984 until 1990, where she earned her B.A., she then continued to study at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (High School for Design) in Offenbach am Main in Germany and went on to earn her M.A. in 1994.Parastou lives with her two children in Frankfurt Germany now.
Forouhar's work is autobiographical in nature and responds to the politics that have shaped and defined contemporary Iranian citizenship both in Iran and abroad. She works within a range of media including site specific installation, animation, digital drawing, photography, signs and products. Through her work, she processes very real experiences of loss, pain, and state-sanctioned violence through animations, wallpapers, flipbooks, and drawings. Forouhar uses culturally specific motifs found within traditional Iranian arts such as Islamic calligraphy and Persian miniature painting to question the ways these forms can generate a lack of individual agency while adhering to a standardized understanding of beauty and cultural identity.
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