Cabinet of curiosities #10 | Terrific gardens

Ghazale Bahiraie

In these artistic embroideries, a fiery flower blossoms between the earth and the sky, hypnotising all those who observe it from afar. Seen from this distance, it seems poetic, sublime, almost divine.

But as you get closer? The charm wears off. In these works embroidered in light, the illusion of distant beauty is transformed into a brutal truth. The delicate threads that weave this visual canvas are not trying to seduce. What seemed extraordinary reveals its true face: that of a theatre of tragedy. The blinding glare becomes ashes, smoke and howls. The fragments scattered in the air are not stars, but pieces of broken human histories: children, women, men, civilians. What seemed a sublime work turns out to be a disaster, woven in flesh and blood (Ali Jafari).