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Ruined landscape with architectural remnants and open sky, monochrome and muted. Given to the Wind by Maryam Tabatabaei

Maryam Tabatabaei

b. 1980

Given to the Wind, 2026

Medium
Oil pastel on board
Dimensions
78¾ × 94½ in (200 × 240 cm)
Signature
Signed — reverse of artwork
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Liikeh Art FactoryKashan, Iran

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About the work

Decay, erosion, ruin, collapse. What first connects me to images associated with these words is something deeply personal and internal. Yet where the boundary between the individual and the collective, the inner and the outer, begins to overlap, a shared territory emerges. Here, existence unfolds within a condition in which it is impossible to know whether something is merely collapsing and disappearing, or whether, within its darkness and wounds, the possibility of survival and renewal still persists, hidden like a secret desire or an unspoken dream.

About Maryam Tabatabaei

Maryam Tabatabaei is a painter, draftswoman, and illustrator. She received her BA in Painting from Alzahra University and her MA in Painting from the Art University of Tehran. Since the mid 2000s, Tabatabaei has maintained an active artistic practice, exhibiting extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Iran and internationally. Her solo exhibitions include From the Sound of Breaking and In Between Darkness at Nian Gallery, Before Forgetting at A Gallery, Herman at Elahe Gallery, and Shine on Me at Artlab Gallery in Beirut. Her work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and art events, including the Iranian Cultural Center in Paris, Beirut Art Fair, Unfair Milan, If Not Exotic, Then What? in California, and exhibitions in Lebanon, Serbia, and France. Alongside her studio practice, Tabatabaei has built a significant career in children’s book illustration, collaborating with major Iranian publishers and magazines and illustrating more than forty books. Her achievements include First Prize in the Children’s Section of the Iranian Press Festival, Second Prize at the Biennial of Niyayesh, and selection for the White Ravens Catalogue in Munich for the book The Mystery of the Blue Headed Madman. For more than two decades, she has been active in art education, teaching drawing and painting at various institutions. She currently teaches at Kaghaz Studio, Saar Art School, and the Fine Arts High School for Boys in Tehran. In 2025, she served as a juror for the Drawing Section of the 32nd Iranian Youth Visual Arts Festival.

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