Enghelâb (Revolution)

Pigment, Wall paint, Acrylic, Oil Stick, Wax Stick & Spraycan on Newspaper Cut Print on Canvas.

Limited Edition Print on Canvas 2 of 8 ( Anniversary Edition )

122CM x 444CM

2018

“As long as I can loop back it has been Enghelâb: thrown into Revolution as a child 43 years ago, it conditioned life choices - deep emotions that led explorations into memory, displacement, and identity.

The Enghelâb panel project surfaced as I researched family documents and put my hands on an original Newsweek copy from January 1979. The main story ran a 'reportage' on the ongoing street violence with photographs by Magnum war photographer Abbas. A specific yellowed double-paged image stuck and I went to transform it into a 444cm work on canvas. I met Abbas in Paris in April 2018 to show him the work. He sadly passed away a week later - on April 27th.

The Revolution Panel was primarily confidentially ( and controversially ) unveiled in Tehran’s Villa Sufia Artspace on the Revolutions 40th birthday in February 2019, announcing what was to erupt. The piece objectively expresses the fearless energies behind forces of change, but also points towards that transformative original crossroad that changed my life."