Toil, Wall, Border

Echoing the vivid history of her homeland and it’s intricate traditions in her compositions, Elham Hoseinpour or Lili (as she is affectionately known) completed her masters in painting from Shiraz University of the Arts and has displayed her work at various shows. Her strength lies in the deeply riveting figurative compositions that she paints with great fervour.

Articulating her journey in Farsi, English translations are but minute expressions of her expansive process and unique journey. Her figures are often juxtaposed against ornate calligraphy and architectural forms, and seem to draw one into a whirlpool of complex emotions. The three words above show how deeply intertwined her thoughts and practice are with her acute observation and envelop the viewer with a sense of anguish.

‘The choice of color in works has a cognitive and emotional aspect. At the same time, culture and tradition are an inseparable part of modeling any land. Patterns and architectural structures in these spaces, composition, arrangement, form and deconstruction have all become a model of the miniatures depicted in Iranian cultural books and literature in connection with my works are my concerns and thoughts. During the artistic activity, the works have taken different forms. This dependence of today's man on the house and a place to live is the concern of sufferings, dependencies in relation to the past; It has an effective role in tomorrow. But I do not know where it will take me.’