Vida Heydari Contemporary presents an all-female group of Iranian artists—Katayoun Karami, Maryam Firuzi, Niloofar Rahnama, and Roghayeh Najdi—at India Art Fair 2026.
Bringing together photography and painting, the presentation highlights contemporary Iranian women’s practices that engage with memory, resilience, gender, and lived experience.
Katayoun Karami’s intimate photography and installations explore identity, interiority, and the emotional body. Her fragmented figures and tactile surfaces reflect vulnerability and endurance within contemporary Iranian life.
For Maryam Firuzi, photography merges reality and imagination, blurring the line between fiction and documentary. Shaped by periods of social upheaval, migration, and the pandemic, her recent work uses ruins as a metaphor for collective pain, positioning art as a space for healing and collaboration.
Niloofar Rahnama’s paintings draw from everyday domestic objects to explore memory, presence, and feminine experience. Marked by time and use, these quiet interiors reclaim psychological space through subtle shifts in form and color.
Rooted in the artistic heritage of Tabriz, Roghayeh Najdi addresses gendered power structures through symbolic compositions where spectral female figures coexist with lush, oversized flora—metaphors of endurance, solidarity, and renewal.
Together, these Iranian women artists offer a layered reflection on contemporary experience, creating a dialogue across geographies that foregrounds art’s capacity to hold memory, resilience, and possibility.
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