'Potent' art exhibition at Hampstead Museum

‘Potent?’ interprets and questions the body as a metaphor for evolution and expression. It is an exhibition by a Cambridge-based Iranian artist who found career change inspirations during a stay in Hampstead a decade ago...

There is a focus on the body across this collection of paintings and drawings. They are powerful and versatile bodies in another world, which is a 'developing world' and another realm, a step away from trance where she muses. This body of work represents the human power to take an extra step and rise beyond a status; it is detached from the judgment of the good and the evil. Some of the exhibited items are inspired by the epic of Shahnameh and its representations of the genders.