Artist, painter and poet
Forouz Zarei was born in Tehran in 1984, and raised in Abadan in the aftermath of the Iran Iraq war. Forouz studied Fine Art at Islamshahr Tehran University and later moved to Berlin, where she currently resides with her partner and young family. In her artwork, Forouz presents a collection of delicate and seemingly vulnerable, unframed paintings on paper. They represent gashes, wounds, barbed wire and faceless embryonic figures, hung up, tied down or pushed down by force. Her viscerally startling images are often accompanied by lines of Farsi poetry.