Artist Statement
When I was four, I took an intense interest in Painting which still prevails ever since, and to achieve this goal I challenged all the barriers surrounding me. This challenge of mine with life and the fight to exist and create is still going on. Art takes me closer to myself and makes the world around me more endurable. My art is a combination of my inner self interacting with the place in which I dwell. Creation of every piece of art in my view is the record of my inner images from the outer world on canvas, cardboard or paper; and this challenge among the tools, devices and the work at my hands will go on and on until it results in creating an image between me and my surroundings. It has been years that I have been utilizing printmaking techniques in addition to drawing and painting to create my works. Printmaking has incredibly satisfied my enthusiasm due to its unique path in creating works as well as its exquisite textures. To me this process of forming a work of art looks much like fertility and birth, and the tools in printmaking help me reach to a world fraught with expressive colors, lines and textures.
My work trends are, in general, influenced by various themes from that of womanity and eroticism, which are ingrained with expressive colors and forms and create intense, two-fold, intermingled spaces, to the reciprocity of life and death which is accompanied with elements like fish, bird and trees taking away their freedom through rigid lines entangling all my forms. My works are generally in a challenge between two realistic and abstract attitudes in which death and extinction beside birth and fertility display an expressive game. My works are derived from my living space and this feeling that there always are those who keep watching you and take you to the abyss of distrust and dread. Humans, forms and colors of my works are accompanied with a sort of embroilment along with a sizzling rhythm which catapults me out from my inner world together with a cultural nostalgia, and this is while I conceive the persistence of life through clinging the colors and forms.
Shokoufeh Fallah