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Zahak-nameh is an ongoing series of narrative paintings by Aileen Bahmanipour, initiated in Iran in 2012 and first exhibited at Vancouver’s grunt gallery in 2017. After a prolonged pause, she returned to the series in 2024, amid the unrelenting wars and systemic violences sweeping across the Middle East—conflicts sustained, in part, by the strategic complicity of Western powers, including Canada.
The early works in Zahak-nameh draw from Persian mythology and epic literature, fusing Persian traditional miniature painting with anatomical and biological illustrations. These references form a visual language through which Bahmanipour explores the body as both subject and site of historical memory. In the most recent work, she shifts toward a contemporary narrative, examining the ruptured body of today—physical, cultural, and political.
This is a body in crisis. Its organs are severed, estranged from the whole, yet still tenuously linked—still performing,...More
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Zahak-nameh is an ongoing series of narrative paintings by Aileen Bahmanipour, initiated in Iran in 2012 and first exhibited at Vancouver’s grunt gallery in 2017. After a prolonged pause, she returned to the series in 2024, amid the unrelenting wars and systemic violences sweeping across the Middle East—conflicts sustained, in part, by the strategic complicity of Western powers, including Canada.
The early works in Zahak-nameh draw from Persian mythology and epic literature, fusing Persian traditional miniature painting with anatomical and biological illustrations. These references form a visual language through which Bahmanipour explores the body as both subject and site of historical memory. In the most recent work, she shifts toward a contemporary narrative, examining the ruptured body of today—physical, cultural, and political.
This is a body in crisis. Its organs are severed, estranged from the whole, yet still tenuously linked—still performing,...More
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