LOT 47 - Niusha Niuzhpor
Sahar K. Boluki Fine Art Gallery
Title: Untitled
Dimensions: 11.8" x 8.26” (before frame)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 2021
Niusha Niuzhpour was born in April 1966 in Tehran. After obtaining her master’s degree in painting from the University of Art and Architecture in Tehran, she began painting professionally. This artistic career has resulted in six solo exhibitions and participation in over 80 group exhibitions both domestically and internationally. From childhood, she had a great inclination to see pictures in textbooks and stories, and according to her, each picture was an excuse to be engrossed for days and hours with her own mental narratives. Her fascination with distant spaces and deformations stems from summer afternoons spent sitting on the rooftops of old houses, absorbed in watching the courtyards, gardens, windows, and playing with their shadows and sunlight. She heard the magic of imagination from the storytelling sessions in the courtyard of an Imamzadeh and has been lost in it ever since, much like being lost among the stems of sunflowers. Niusha consistently depicts social concerns through natural elements and believes that nature is humanity’s greatest guide. Her concerns include death, birth, life, relationships, and human interactions. In almost all her collections, she follows a journey, and in this collection, after passing through the green stems and leaves of sunflowers that evoke hope for her, she reaches autumn. And, of course, she turns green again. Both the sunflowers and hope revive after autumn, and this cycle repeats. She also elaborates on this collection: For me, the present collection is a narrative of a suspended state that we are experiencing; an illusory situation between earth and sky, between hope and despair, and between eagerness and bewilderment. We strive to move forward through the tall stalks of sunflowers. But the more we try, the deeper we sink into the darkness; nevertheless, we constantly anticipate the joy of seeing the sun and the blue sky through the broad leaves of the sunflowers. We live in a place that is above the soil and below the sun. In such conditions, survival is resistance.
