Parastou Forouhar (Persian; پرستو فروهر) (born 1962 in Tehran) is an Iranian installation artist who lives and works out of Frankfurt, Germany.!
London
Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life, and Death in Iran
Rose Issa Projects at Leighton House Museum
October 1–November 6, 2010
Parastou Forouhar’s first exhibition in the UK and a mini-retrospective of work ranging from 2003 to the present.
BIOGRAPHY Photographer, installation- and multi-media artist Parastou Forouhar was born in 1962 in Teheran, received her BA in Art from the.
Born in Tehran in 1962, Forouhar has lived and worked in Germany since 1991. Her exhibition catalog, made especially for this show, sets the tone for what is to come with a pithy, revealing epigram about the circumstances of her arrival in Germany: “I was Parastou Forouhar.
Somehow, over the years, I have become ‘Iranian.’” This “enforced ethnic identification” (her words) is indeed a double bind, and swiftly becomes the point of departure for the works at hand.
In approaching the exhibition, one walks through Leighton House Museum’s Orientalist showcase, which centers on its nineteenth-century Arab Hall: a high-domed, indoor water garden, enclosed with intricately carved wooden screens, decorative tiling, and Qur’anic