Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Arina Kalantar Hormozi

The Reed Speaks (نی حدیث راه پر خون می کند قصه های عشق مجنون می کند - مولانا)

This painting is the central work and part of a triptych within the installation, establishing a connection between the material world and a higher metaphysical realm. It invites the viewer to move from the brutality of material existence toward a transcendent space, positioning resistance as a sacred and enduring force. Drawing on Persian miniature painting and Persian-Islamic architecture, the composition stages an interior of violence and division alongside thresholds that guide the viewer toward an upper realm and the divine.