Parastou Forouhar

Parastou Forouhar
Born 1962
Tehran, Iran
Education University of Tehran, Aufbaustudium an der Hochschule für Gestaltung
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. Her artwork is political and expresses a critical response towards the politics in Iran and Islamic Fundamentalism.

Bibliography

Early life and education

The daughter of political activist Parvaneh Forouhar and politician Dariush Forouhar, Parastou was born in 1962 in Tehran, Iran.[1] Her parents were murdered in the autumn of 1988,[2] and Parastou relocated to Germany in 1991, where she has continued her work.[1] She lives in exile because considered a political threat by the Iranian government.[3]

Parastou studied Art at the University of Tehran from 1984 until 1990, where she earned her B.A., and went on to earn her M.A. from Hochschule from the Aufbaustudium an der Hochschule für Gestaltung in 1994.[1]

Work

Solo exhibitions of Parastou's work have been held at Stavanger Cultural Center, Norway; Golestan Art Gallery, Tehran; Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin; City Museum, Crailsheim, Germany; and German Cathedral, Berlin.[4] She has participated in group exhibitions at Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Frauenmuseum Bonn; Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Joanneum, Graz, Austria; House of World Cultures, Berlin; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden; Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne; and Jewish Museum San Francisco.[4]

In 2002, the Iranian Cultural Ministry censored Parastou's photo exhibition, Blind Spot, a collection of images depicting a veiled, gender-neutral figure with a bulbous, featureless face. Parastou chose to exhibit the empty frames on the wall on opening night instead of forgoing the show.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Forouhar, Parastou. "Vita". Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Forouhar, Parastou. "Dokumente zur Aufklärung der politischen Morde an Parwaneh und Dariush Forouhar". Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Parastou Forouhar, Biography: Social & Historical Context". Feminist Art Archive. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin, ed. (2007). Global Feminisms. London: Merrell Publishers Limited. p. 273. ISBN 978-1-8589-4390-9.
  5. ↑ Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin, ed. (2007). Global Feminisms. London: Merrell Publishers Limited. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-8589-4390-9.

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