Crushed by the weight of a society that is still distinguished by the primacy of the male, Iranian women remain tyrannized by a malevolent and unjust power. Fariba Samsami is interested in women in the light of current socio-political events in Iran in that they undermine the very essence of woman, her soul, her spirit… connected to the woman’s body, her skin, her hair: veil, chador, manto, fabrics and scarves that have been worn by women and that also evoke memories of their body and their smell.
Fariba Samsami
Fariba Samsami was born in Tehran and now lives in Montréal. She has a BFA from Concordia University and a BFA from the College of Decorative Arts in Tehran. Samsami has exhibited at the Conseil des arts textile du Québec (Montréal), Articule (Montréal), Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury, Ont.), Maison de la culture (Montréal), Atelier Silex (Trois-Rivières, Que.), Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton, Ont.), Grave (Victoriaville, Que.), Le CEG (Sorel-Tracy, Que.), the Centre culturel franco-manitobain (Saint-Boniface, Man.) and Modern Fuel Gallery (Kingston, Ont.).
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