Parastou Forouhuar

The art gallery "Verso Arte contemporanea" in the administrative center of Pedemont features the exhibition He kills me, he kills me not by Parastou Forouhar.

Parastou Forouhuar was born in 1962 in Tehran, she has lived and worked in Germany since 1991. In 1998 she lost the both of her parents, Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, who were brutally killed by the regime in 1998 for struggling for a saecular state.

Forouhuar's artpieces are very conditioned by her personal history and focus on such subjects as opposition to the regime, freedom of thought, the fight for women's rights. The beauty of images conceals references that uncover torture and persecutions.

The artist says: “The life in the world of the ancient Persian miniatures is unbearable. People are assigned a place based on the positiion of their body and their colour, so that their presence magnifies the decorative order. With a huge effort I escaped this role and I refuse being dragged again into such a condition, inside the the suffocating realm of pre-establlished schemes”.

VERSO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
via Pesaro 22, Turin
until 5 March 2011

See the links in the box below for more information about Parastou Forouhuar and her family