Biography: Farzaneh Hosseini
Frazaneh Hosseini was born in 1984 in Tehran, Iran where she lives and works today. She is a student at the Tehran Academy of Fine Arts. The precision with which Hosseini prints her figurative linoleum cuts on hand made paper is such that it reminds us of the delicacy of Iranian miniature painters. Her forms make stylistic references to the 'saghakahneh' masters and matters that speak of resistance to an ever-changing self-absorbed society depicted in her headless forms. Hosseini often achieves a high degree of emotional tension in her work as a result of juxtaposing modern and traditional elements in black and white scenes. Her most famous and long lasting running series of prints depicts not only her headless human forms but exaggerated manipulative hands in various postures representing the traditionalism of her native land. Hosseini endows her characters and scenes with everyday attributes of Iranian life while she focuses on gender roles as well as historically and culturally loaded signs such as the famous Iranian simorgh who rises from its own ashes regardless of how many times it is hunted down and destroyed. In her works Farzaneh Hosseini depicts two souls taking flight: the one is the lost soul of the modern Iranian and the other is that of the traditional Iranian who is questioning his place in this modern world. That which unites these two is a heightened awareness and a need to remain Iranian and yet be a part of this ever global society around her. Hosseini has participated in several group and solo exhibitions including one at the British Museum in 2007.
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