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Pantea Mahrou
1990 - Current
Amlash Rise, 2025
Bronze
36 x 11.5 x 5 cm
14 1/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 in
Located in
LondonAmlash Rise bridges past and present through engraved symbols, ancient codes, and numbers historically associated with love, luck, prosperity, and positive energy. The sculptural surface reveals the world of the Amlash characters inspired by ancient sacred deities, envisioned as existing within parallel realms. Ancient script-inspired markings and symbolic signs are woven into the work, while the vertical structure evokes the coexistence of multiple worlds. Through this layered language, the sculpture connects ancestral belief systems with contemporary experience, offering a quiet dialogue between myth, memory, and the present moment. Inspired by the Mother Goddess of Amlash, this sculpture reinterprets an ancient archetype of fertility, abundance, and protection through a contemporary form. Engraved planetary symbols, cuneiform and Avestan inspired scripts, and ancient signs of energy and blessing connect ancestral belief systems with present-day experience, positioning the work as a modern talisman.
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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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