Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran

The Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar expresses her reaction to the perplexing situations in her homeland through a wide variety of techniques, from photography to digital drawings and multi-media installations.This is the first English-language monograph on her work, published on the occasion of her first solo show in the UK at Leighton House Museum in London. With essays by curator and film-maker Lutz Becker and author and critic Russell Harris, this publication presents a selection of the most startling highlights of Forouhar’s work so far – created in response to the dramatic social and political upheaval that she experienced after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the murder of her parents in Tehran.Though the inspiration behind Forouhar’s subject matter may be tragic, her work has a great emotional range: the results are sometimes macabre, occasionally darkly humorous and often purely joyful.