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Bahar Sabzevari was born in 1980 in Iran, where she spent most part of her life before leaving for Paris in 2003 to study fine arts. Bahar’s works become a testimony to the weight religion has put on Iranian society while responding to the pressures she has felt as a woman and an artist. She uses religious rituals, characters, and symbols as her props, and as a backdrop to emotionally charged deformed and unfolding figures of women - often herself - to portray a “quasi” schizophrenic state, still responsive to the societal obligations while feeling suffocated by their restrictions. A commentary on the paradoxes she has experienced in the crossings of modernity with religious fundamentalism, her works express a continuous conflict with the roles defined for her as a woman in Islam and the reality of her everyday existence. Bahar lives in New York, where she continues to pursue her career as a painter.

Works are untitled and are acrylic on canvas.

For inquiries on purchasing artwork, please contact the artist directly at baharesabzz@gmail.com.

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Presented by Art at Watson in collaboration with Middle East Studies.