Born in 1981
Lives and works in Tehran (IR)
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TRAINING
Member of the International Academy of Ceramics (AIC/IAC) Master's degree in plant biology, Tehran (IR)
EXHIBITIONS
2018-2023 Residency at Cité internationale des Arts, Paris (When the Inconceivable Takes Form curator Oksana Karpovets, 2023)
2024 Winner of "Best Guest" award, British Art Medal Society (UK)
2023 Vallauris International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics (F)
2021 13th Biennale internationale d'estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières (Québec, CN) 2019 Contemporary Ceramic Art from the Middle East, curated by Dr. Mariam Rosser- Owen, Victoria & Albert Museum (UK)
Farnaz Rabiejah wishes to inscribe her ceramics in the long lineage of Iranian ceramics, made up partly of traditional techniques and partly of innovation. She doesn't want to diverge or shock. And yet, by taking up the gladiolus motif, a powerful symbol of the war between Iraq and Iran between 1980 and 1988, and by raising the thorny issue of identity - Iranian on the one hand, and the underlying question of Iranian women on the other - Farnaz Rabiejah creates shocking works. Like Ronsard, Persian art knew how to put the allegorical significance of flowers into words and images. Dazzlingly beautiful one day, dead the next, the flower simultaneously lends its vulnerability and ephemeral nature to the representation of the cycle of life and the female sex. (...)
Read the full text in the 2025 exhibition catalog
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