Najafi Farzaneh

  • I feel pain in my left HAND. Alangradeh Forest, Gorgan, Iran, January 2025. photos taken by Mohamad Vakhideh.
  • From I’m part of Nature Series Chabahar beach, Iran, 2024(Nourouz)
  • From I’m part of Nature Series 2024, Golmakan, Mashhad, Iran
  • Meditation for Escape from Fear, Day 1. Bodhikhaya Residency, 2024. South Africa. Photographer: Tina Bester & Tebuza Tebokhu
  • Meditation for Escape from Fear, Day 3. Bodhikhaya Residency, 2024. South Africa. Photographer: Ivuku Vuku
  • Meditation for Escape from Fear, Day 4. Bodhikhaya Residency, 2024. South Africa.
  • Meditation for Escape from Fear, Day 5. Bodhikhaya Residency, 2024. South Africa. Photographer: Tebuza Tebukhu
  • Meditation for Escape from Fear, Day 6. Bodhikhaya Residency, 2024. South Africa. Photographer: Bronwentrupp & Kiara Watermeyer

Since 1997, Farzaneh has been teaching. Throughout these years, she has been actively engaged in the field of visual arts, creating artworks and executing projects. She began her new activities related to contemporary art by working in the sphere of environmental art alongside the father of Iranian environmental art, Dr. Ahmad Nadalian, in 2004. Since then, working in the field of contemporary art with environmental approaches has been one of the basic focal points in her videos, installations, performances.

She has been serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Visual Communication at the University of Golestan in Gorgan, Iran, since 2016. In addition to teaching Art History, Contemporary Arts, and Creativity—her favorite subjects—she has consistently aimed to inform her students about arts related to nature and the environment. As a researcher, university lecturer, and artist active in contemporary art, particularly with environmental approaches and nature-related arts, she considers it her duty to establish a connection between art and culture in her projects, while also studying symbols and signs deeply rooted in Iranian culture and art.

In recent years, in light of the two significant environmental crises faced in Iran—the issue of migratory birds and, in particular, the water crisis—these concerns have become the main focus of her studies and performances that continue to this day.

As art is internationally regarded as a messenger of peace, particularly for nature, traveling to new regions and collaborating with artists from different nations and diverse cultural backgrounds in various fields of art can help spread peace throughout the world. Working in new environments will undoubtedly expose an artist to new experiences and lead to becoming familiar with new worlds of art and nature.

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