Faces of Resilience” is the title of an exhibition at Dubai’s Ayyam Gallery in which the artist Roshanak Aminelahi pays homage to notable women in history and contemporary culture, such as Empress Farah Pahlavi, actress Golshifteh Farahani, African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, and French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, among others.
For Aminelahi, her homeland, Iran is an emotional subject. Her new show was inspired by personal struggles, as well as by the cruel death of Mahsa Amini last year and all the pro-women protests it sparked around the world. The show is on until Jan. 2, 2024.
In a conversation with Kayhan Life at the gallery, Aminelahi, who was born in Iran in 1972, talked about Persian mythology, internal beauty, and the Iranian women she admires.
