painting – Foroozan Shirghani http://foroozanshirghani.com View Foroozan Shirghani's Artwork Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 Alienation – 2016 http://foroozanshirghani.com/smashed-bottles/ Sun, 06 Nov 2016 07:00:02 +0000 http://foroozanshirghani.com/?p=139

This collection is about alienation – expressing constantly changing, fragmented lives.  The figurations in this collection are an allegory to social pressures and psychological traumas, caused either by the endless drudgery of work or by the socio-political ruling systems. Alienation is usually an inevitable consequence of these bureaucracies and leads to distortion and deformation of human personality and life.

I address this situation by compressing and homogenizing my subjects and by placing them in an apocalyptic world where place, time, and even the very appearance of humanity undergo drastic changes. People gradually become alienated from others as well as from themselves and this leads to even more isolation and loneliness. I explore the irreversible psychological damage of force caused by twisting my subjects with fear, isolation, anger, despair, and eventually obedience. Consequently, in some of my works the figures take refuge in buildings that have no comfort and vast emptiness,  only a decaying surveillance site. Here time has lost its credibility and value and the only source of hope is scant rays of light among the shadows.

The initial idea of this collection was formed shortly after I immigrated to the States in 2015. I felt a sort of amputation from my homeland and a kinship with the crushed plastic water bottles that I used to line up on my desk every day. The bottles were pressed and deformed easily just like a person under pressure and that was the beginning of an ongoing experiment with various mediums to discover the potential of this symbolic form of the critical and fragile human condition.

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Gazeness – 2013 http://foroozanshirghani.com/gazeness/ Wed, 06 Nov 2013 06:00:32 +0000 http://foroozanshirghani.com/?p=88

my interest to draw spectacled people was started when I went to an optician’s for changing my glasses .I understood that how much effective the glasses are on our perception apart from their form attraction ,and I remembered one of my childhood memories. Wearing glasses is one of the mysterious curiosities of people in childhood and I wasn’t exception .I can remember that I pretended to low vision in school’s per capita optometry. Glasses were a personable sign for me .Gradually this childlike personable feeling was exchanged with man’s though , and recognized that man can see as much as they know.(Our perceive border is our vision border)
Now it’s me and routine wearing on and out glasses . Sometimes my eyes blink restless and sometimes gaze at an eccentric lethargy and then stare . As if this insanity habit has been afflicted with a contagious illness: frequent eyesight

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Faceless – 2010 http://foroozanshirghani.com/faceless/ Sat, 06 Nov 2010 06:26:46 +0000 http://foroozanshirghani.com/?p=128

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In search of lost space – 2008 http://foroozanshirghani.com/test/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:39:46 +0000 http://foroozanshirghani.com/?p=76

When the mind floats away,I automatically become weightless . I watch myself mildly. My body which moves in the whimsical fluidity ,I love more than ever.The more weightless I become ,the more lighter my environed color. A strange dignity surrounds me. Gradually, I do not hear any voice, and I calmly get pregnant from my internal sound . I’m like flipping form in freezing space.Like a figure who experiencing abstraction in infinity. like a bulk which emptying from inside.Yes ,It looks like a dream and how a big conflict to reproduce a dream that is forgotten every day.
this collection depicts a set of figures that gradually disappears from its surroundings, where, in addition to all the surrounding objects, some parts of the figures itself are removed and resolved in a large volume of space, it seems that it was not present at all or there is a presence which its life continuation depends on the silence surrounding . Fluid lines and mild gray layers that reveal themselves in a vast range of white layers. It is difficult to recognize the form and the figure. It is possible to consider the form as a space, or vice versa. There is something missing here. It probably is part of space or man or perhaps both, and to find this lost, there is no choice but to stand and resolve among painting layers.

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My Birth 2 – 2006 http://foroozanshirghani.com/my-birth-2/ Mon, 06 Nov 2006 07:11:53 +0000 http://foroozanshirghani.com/?p=118

All life originality is the continuity of the principle of birth and death, and the one that does not surrender to this simple destiny will moss from inside , and what reduces the speed of this process is creativity and creation. Creativity is a sign of the human dynamics , but femininity; this instinctively productive identity who generates this cycle of birth and death monthly. creator whose life is always in her, and this is itself the same dreadful rhythm that life and femininity share in it. The pain that is produced by her is her cure. It is feminization of latent puberty that is fertilized in menopause. Right when this cycle stops.

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My Birth1 – 2004 http://foroozanshirghani.com/my-birth1/ Sat, 06 Nov 2004 06:49:31 +0000 http://foroozanshirghani.com/?p=104

As a child, I was always fascinated by the mystery of how the world came to be. When I asked others, I found myself needing to clarify by saying, ‘No, I mean the very first time.’ I often found myself staring at my own body, contemplating what lay beneath the surface of my skin and bones.

Now, more than two decades later, I still find myself drawn back to those same childhood inquiries. The allure of those fantasies of bone and skin is inexplicably powerful. Whenever I revisit these unanswered questions, I find myself slipping into a strange trance where the world of organs and flesh collapses into a surreal, suspended state. It’s as if there was no predetermined plan or blueprint for creation. I cannot recall a time before this, and I’m left only with these anonymous, decaying organs that seem to have no defined boundaries.

It’s unclear how or why I’ve become hypnotized by these thoughts, but I find that this collapse represents a symbol of a new beginning. It’s a reminder that the origins of the universe and of life itself remain a mystery, waiting to be uncovered and explored.

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