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Afsoon?Iranian
Men
2012
Edition 8/50
Artist stamp
Framed
Print of collage
and watercolour on
Somerset paper
42 x 30 cm
Guide Price £950

“

As a Middle Eastern woman living and working in London I value my
freedom highly. To be able to help a fellow artist or academic gain their
freedom and continue to create is a great cause in which to be involved.
This piece was inspired by a Persian expression, which loosely
translates as “mountains don’t move but people do and will therefore
come to face each-other again”. I like to associate it, in some way, with
the idea of the possibility of return as free individuals to that which has
been left behind.
afsoon

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Afsoon spent her childhood in Iran, and her
late teens and early twenties in San Francisco,
before settling in London. Her nomadic life is
reflected in her work where East merges with
West and the result is at once familiar and
foreign. There are several layers to her work.
At times she combines text with images,
as well as combining different techniques such
as linocut, photography, collage and etching.
The result is a rich yet often playful and
humorous tableau, which the audience is able
to engage with and interpret in its own way.
Her work is held in many different collections
around the world, including the British Museum
that holds fourteen of her pieces.

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