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Pantea Mahrou
1990 - Current
Timeless Love Riders, 2019
Mixed media on canvas
120 x 90 cm
47 1/4 x 35 3/8 in
This work portrays two riders as symbols of love and movement, expressing emotional connection and continuity. Ancient-inspired signs, symbolic numbers, and meaningful motifs are embedded throughout the surface, forming a layered visual language.Elements such as the lotus flower, associated with renewal and life, and the lion, a symbol of strength, appear as central markers. Positioned between the riders, the lion represents the strength of love. Through the integration of cultural symbols linked to luck, blessing, and positive energy, the work offers a timeless reflection on love, heritage, and symbolic memory.
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Pantea Mahrou is an Iranian contemporary artist whose practice explores fragmentation, memory, displacement, feminine experience and inherited political histories. Through layered material and spatial processes, her work examines visibility, erasure, silence and concealment, revealing how bodies, domestic spaces and emotional landscapes carry traces of trauma, migration, censorship and political transformation.
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