"Sameh Khalatbari: 1401 N/m² Resistance" is published on the occasion of her first solo exhibition at Modernism Inc. in San Francisco, May 18-July 1, 2023.
Created in response to the fate of the young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini last year, and the ongoing conditions in Iran, Khalatbari felt a responsibility to be the voice of the people in Iran and to spread the word with her art, but she couldn’t be direct. To embody her ideas and express the intensity of her feelings, she developed an entirely new technique working with string which she extended across canvas she stretched herself. “I wanted to make everything from scratch to show how this movement grew up from the heart of society, and how people naturally came to the street,” she says. “All of the fibers are natural, evoking women’s hair.”
