Biography: Farina Salehi
Farina Salehi was born in Kerman, Iran, in 1984. She later attended The Soureh University of Shiraz where she got her BA in art. Having specialized in tribal Iranian gilim and gabbeh designs, Salehi believes that tribes live in the silence of nature and that this silence pushes them into mobility. They portray this mobility in their art through colors they draw from the nature that surrounds them. Salehi pulls out these colors and forms from the heart of tribal art to pour them onto her canvas which come in the forms of tribal horse coverings, mats and tablecloths. The colors in her palette are not only those of tribal life but are an objection to the cold colors of our modern world. Her lapises and alizarins lie thickly on her canvas in an attempt to remind us of a lost nobility when we too belonged to nature. In a world where few painters still care about their national art Salehi works to join tribal weaves with abstract western style paintings. At times Salehi's works become highly abstract while yet at others they take us back to tribal life. Salehi has had several solo and group exhibitions in Iran and she is a member of the Association of Iranian Artists. Farina Salehi is presently living in Tehran where she is both working and doing her master's degree at the Tehran University of Fine Arts.
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