Mad Queen – By Farnaz karimi

This work was presented at The Pulchri Studio during an international art exhibition. This event was organized by Mythra Gallery and was named: “Putting color on the face of the world“. The Persian/Dutch author Koushyar Parsi honored me by describing the above painting as follows:

Translated from Persian to English

The woman in this potrayal by Farnaz Karimi is both attacking and defending at the same time. She is herself and nobody can succeed her. Indeed there is something to defend, but she wants to be heard. The woman is on her way, filled with femininity, wearing high heels and a dress like a Cancan dancer.  But there is more to her than her femininity.That thing is life and the goddess is putting good and evil in her dominion. The painter has made the intangible, tangible and made us able to touch it.
Her precense is felt and she is here. With her imagination she never deviates from her path. She masks herself with her movement. The woman cannot be in the reality of every day life. Circumstances have forced her to turn the pressure laying on her shoulder, into self-confidence. On first glance this grotesque scene may apear threatening, but the viewer does not know if the godess is fighing against good or fighing against evil. It is an example of a life in the midst of everything that is and everything that shall be.   Her inner thoughts are engraved in her skin, in other words she is how she appears.