WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM - II, 2024
Pine, pigments on handmade wasli paper, museum acrylic, silk embroidered with human hair
12.25 x 9 x 1 inches
$12,000
Pine, pigments on handmade wasli paper, museum acrylic, silk embroidered with human hair
12.25 x 9 x 1 inches
$12,000
Pine, pigments on handmade wasli paper, museum acrylic, silk embroidered with human hair
12.25 x 9 x 1 inches
$12,000
In WOMEN, LIFE, FREEDOM - II, a pair of hand carved wood scissors become a frame for a painting of Nasibe Samsaei, Iranian born activist who now resides in Turkey, cutting her hair and an image of a flower embroidered with Iranian human hair. The work is in direct response to the 2022 arrest and beating death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. After her horrific murder, women began cutting their hair publicly to protest the morality laws and brutality used in the oppression of women.