Parastoo Haddadi`s Paiting World

زن - زندگی -آزادی  

Women-Life-Freedom      

Size:    110 * 80        Technique: Ink       2023

The situation of gender discrimination against women in Iran has always been my concern. This is how I painted artworks with concepts of "women's rights", "desire for equality and freedom and peace for women", "gender apartheid" and finally, after the murder of the 22-year-old Kurdish girl "Mahsa Amini" by The punishment police of the Islamic regime of Iran and its anti-feminist laws led to the widespread protests of the Iranian people, seeing the brutal killing of equality-loving people by the regime army and the rape and shooting of bullets into the eyes and bodies of the protesters, all of them caused the depiction of the slogan of the Iranian women's revolution, "Woman-Life-Freedom" drawn by ink. In this painting, all events are mentioned, from the burning of the mandatory hijab to the execution of protestors and even the killing of children by the repressive regime forces with bullets and even those who were only filming with mobile phones and cutting women's hairs. They have also detained reporters, journalists, artists, athletes, and musicians in prison for espionage and subjected them to torture and forced confessions. The Islamic government of Iran has even threatened the families of those killed and executed by the regime to remain silent and has threatened them with the death of other family members if they file a lawsuit or inform journalists. These people are mentioned in this work: such as Nilufar Hamedi (journalist reporter), Elnaz Rekabi (stone-throwing athlete), Hadis Najafi, Nika Shakrami, Mona Naqibi (8-year-old Baloch girl), Ghazaleh Chalavi (killed during filming by mobile), Mino Majidi, Hananeh Kia, Fereshte Ahmadi's daughter (crying at the mother's grave) and Mehsa Amini and her brother who did not remain silent in front of this crime and raised her voice to the world.