Showcasing a New Generation of Iranian Artists
Nemazee Fine Art and Roya Khadjavi Projects have just completed a very successful exhibition at the 10TH Edition of Photo London.
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Through the lens of five Iranian photographers, the ephemeral nature of ritual and ceremonial performance takes on new permanence, capturing the liminal moments where the mundane transforms into the sacred.
These images serve as bridges between the visible and invisible worlds, documenting the precise instances where human gesture becomes a vessel for spiritual and emotional expression.
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This Year's Featured Artists
Eugenie Flochel
Eugenie Flochel Jahanshahi (1996) is a London-based artist with French & Persian roots working across photography and mixed media. She holds a BA in Political Science from The University of Warwick - 2018 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, NYC - 2020 prior to studying Fashion Photography at the London College of Fashion, UAL - 2023.
Her work is positioned in the field of socially engaged art and experimental photography as she explores narratives of mental health, gender identity and self-development. Blending documentary, fashion and fine art elements, underpinned by a performative and playful approach, she aims at promoting positive visibility and well-being.
Her interests in mental health and art therapy recently crystallized as she completed a yoga teacher training in 2021 and is now facilitating art workshops with women at charities. As part of her master’s project KER exploring healing and resilience among female survivors of domestic abuse, she won the Procter & Gamble Better Lives Award in 2022 that entirely funded her project and received funding from the
Council of Westminster to further her work with charities in 2023.
Eugenie is also working across the art & voluntary sectors as well as in the creative industry for ethical fashion brands,
music artists and multi-disciplinary festivals.
Farzaneh Ghadyanloo
Farzaneh Ghadyanloo is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose work bridges the realms of photography, sculpture, film, and contemporary art. Based in both London and Tehran, her practice explores profound themes of self-discovery, growth, memory, identity, and consciousness, intricately weaving the subtle details of everyday life into reflective and thought-provoking
narratives.
Born in 1989, Ghadyanloo graduated from the Tehran University of Arts with a degree in Film Studies and recently completed her Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art, London.
Her strong foundation in photography serves as the backbone of her creative journey—a medium she continuously redefines and pushes beyond traditional
boundaries to evoke deeper emotional and intellectual engagement.
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Her works have been showcased in solo and group exhibitions, including Celebration at Shirin Gallery in Tehran, Fragments of Her at Sholeh Abghari Gallery in Marbella, and Sonic Disruption at Tate Modern’s Tate Late event in London. Recognized for her innovative approach, she was a finalist for the prestigious Bloomberg New Contemporaries Art Prize 2024.
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Ghadyanloo's art invites viewers into an intimate exploration of personal and collective human experiences, reflecting her keen observational skills and dynamic engagement with her surroundings.
Negin Mahzoun
Negin Mahzoun is an artist based in New York. Her practice focuses on observation, memory, and gender. She explores these issues through her personal experiences and cultural identity. Negin looks at the woman's body as an object and subject with the perspective of self-portrait and layers
of history and literature. She uses images in miniature paintings as a reference for self-portraits.
In addition, she expresses her work through sculptures, installations, paintings, prints, photography, and textile. In her current practice, she uses sewing, which connects her to her family's professional heritage.
Textile has been historically used as a surreptitious tool to depict trauma and transmit intimate emotional and psychological visual narratives. Investigating the consequences of social-cultural trauma and its injurious impact on the body and psyche has been a central core of Negin's
practice.
Stitching and sewing for Negin are the essential elements to bond her sentiments and materials to convey remembrance through the hands, craft, and textiles. She starts with a self-portrait on the fabric and proceeds to stitch repeatedly until the image fades. The repetitive act of damaging the self-portrait with a needle and simultaneously covering it is a metaphor for self-destruction often associated with those suffering from trauma. Negin uses textile as a medium of communicating trauma, with a fresh approach, to visualize the story of oppression and share the trauma as a novel treatment.
Tahmineh Monzavi
Tahmineh Monzavi, born in 1988 in Tehran, is a socially conscious photographer. She began her professional career as a documentary photographer in 2005. In her professional life, with collection of photographs and her harmonious approach to her environment and her time, Tahmineh created her own style to capture and explore in the fields of Artistic and Documentary Photography, with honesty and fearlessness. In 2007, Tahmineh Monzavi professionally started to take photographs of street scenes in Iran which had more significance to her than what was taught to her at the
university.
She wanted to become a photographer focusing on social issues. The limited
opportunities for female photographers in Iran concerned her deeply and pushed her in her own direction to work as an independent documentary photographer. Between 2019 and 2022, she focused her work on the roles and cultures of women in urban and rural areas. In her recent series
The Salt Waltz, in the extraordinary salt mines of Garmsar in the Semnan province, where one finds the precious and rare blue salt, Tahmineh Monzavi captures a woman's dance with cotton flowers and seizes moments of her bathing rituals in the green salted pond.
There she is free from the judgmental eyes, in total harmony with the rugged but magnificent nature. In this salt marsh,
no seed will ever root. These flowers are the memory of a distant eden. We carry our tender hopes like branches and dance with them upon the lifeless land endlessly.
Sepideh Salehi
Sepideh Salehi is a multidisciplinary artist born in Tehran. She left Iran to attend Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, where she received her MFA in Visual Art and Multimedia. Salehi works in various media and utilises different processes, including painting, drawing, printmaking,
photography, and other media.
Her recent photographic collages celebrate womanhood and girlhood to honour the girls fighting for their freedom and the many issues the young generation faces, especially in Iran and Afghanistan.
She uses layering and collage to combine her photography with images from social media and symbolic elements from her country rooted in memories to address the demand for social and political changes.
Some of the venues for her shows include, MIA photo Fair Milan, an exhibition of Iranian women artists titled A Bridge Between You and Everything curated by Shirin Neshat at High Line Nine, NYC, Photo London, Somerset House London, Mirrored Re-Collection at the University of Maryland Stamp Gallery, REVEAL at The Space by Advocartsy LA, Patterning curated by Samantha Friedman at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, STRAPPA Rogue Space Chelsea NY, Craft, and Folk Art Museum LA, Tribeca Video Art NY, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Virgiliano Museum and International Bologna Art Fair Italy.
Salehi has been on a panel discussion with Shirin Neshat, Middle East Institute, and had talks at the University of Maryland, Loyola University, Pyramid Atlantic Center, and others. She currently lives and works between Washington DC and New York.
Nemazee Fine Art was founded on a passion and family history with Iranian art.
The gallery ethos is to promote great and innovative Iranian artists and to nurture the best from the emerging new generation, showcasing the extraordinary artistic heritage of Iran and bringing inspiration and understanding of its culture.
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Gallery Director, Homayoun Nemazee is a prominent art collector, with a collection comprising of exquisite Persian artefacts, impressionist paintings and antique carpets.
The artists he represents provide a fascinating insight into the modern culture of the region, with works displaying exceptional talent, exhibiting subtle influences and interpretation of its ancient artistic traditions to the international art world.
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