Painting
Companions of Burning I ( در غم ما روز ها بیگاه شد روزها با سوز ها همراه شد - مولانا)
This painting confronts the vulnerability of the human body within conditions of violence and deprivation. The figures appear wounded, fragmented, and suspended between life and decay, their physical suffering rendered with an unsettling intimacy.... More
Painting
Companions of Burning II ( در غم ما روز ها بیگاه شد روزها با سوز ها همراه شد - مولانا)
This painting confronts the vulnerability of the human body within conditions of violence and deprivation. The figures appear wounded, fragmented, and suspended between life and decay, their physical suffering rendered with an unsettling intimacy.... More
Painting
Companions of Burning III ( در غم ما روز ها بیگاه شد روزها با سوز ها همراه شد - مولانا)
This painting confronts the vulnerability of the human body within conditions of violence and deprivation. The figures appear wounded, fragmented, and suspended between life and decay, their physical suffering rendered with an unsettling intimacy.... More
Painting
Emptied of Self (مثل نی خود را ز خود کردی تهی بر نوای دیگران دل می نهی - اقبال لاهوری)
This painting forms the third panel of a triptych within the installation, part of an expanded folio that extends the work’s spatial and conceptual field. It cultivates an atmosphere of mystery, loss, and longing, using the threshold as a site of... More
Painting
Longing for Return (هر کسی کو دور ماند از اصل خویش باز جوید روزگار وصل خویش - مولانا )
This piece is the second painting in a triptych within the installation, inspired by the Ney Nameh by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī. It reflects the condition of separation from the divine as origin, expressing a longing for reunion. The work functions as a... More
Painting
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... More
Installation
Thesis - A Tale of Separation (بشنو این نی چون شکایت می کند از جدایی ها حکایت می کند - مولانا)
This thesis examines resistance to colonialism and imperialism through a sculptural installation integrating painting, gilding, and projection. Drawing on Persian poetry, Islamic mysticism, and architecture, it stages the material world as a site... More
Work by
Arina Kalantar Hormozi
Drawing & Painting
“My practice examines the relationship between material and metaphysical worlds, using painting and installation to explore how space, form, and symbolism shape human experience. Drawing on Persian...” [More]