Statement:

Every painting, every sculptural intervention, carries within it a dialogue between opposing forces: color palettes that contrast sharply, transparent and solid surfaces placed in tension, traditional Persian motifs juxtaposed with contemporary techniques.

This aesthetic of contradiction is not a stylistic choice alone; it mirrors the lived experience of negotiating between inner freedom and external control, personal belief and imposed ideology.

It is rooted in the embodied experience of living between two cultural and ideological systems.

Raised in post-revolutionary Iran, she internalized the sharp division between public life—governed by surveillance, conformity, and religious codes—and private life, where individual agency, desire, and dissent could be quietly expressed.

This split is not merely social but deeply psychological, and Khosravi gives it visual form: rooms within rooms, doors that open onto nothing, veiled figures who nevertheless radiate defiance.

Her paintings reveal the emotional labor of performing compliance while inwardly resisting, of being simultaneously visible and invisible. — text by Claudia Cargnel