TEHRAN - The Iranian artist Shirin Mohseny Nasab has won an award at the international exhibition “The Temple of Dreams,” which was held in Lecce, Italy.

Mohseny Nasab’s series titled “Hands” was shown within the section “Les Enfants Terribles”, presented as one of the “cult objects” in the exhibition’s narrative, a dialogue between matter, gesture, and psychological states, and won the Visual Artwork Award, Mehr reported.

Explaining her work, she said: “The ‘Hands’ series has been created using free and expressive lines, based on the form of my left hand. They are abstract works, produced without any control over color. For me, hands are symbols of creation, which can touch the essence of life. In this minimal expression, they serve as an invitation to a personal experience”.

Shirin Mohseny Nasab, 43, graduated from the Visual Arts, Science and Culture University and holds an Art certification from the University of Tehran. She has held solo and group exhibitions, mainly in Iran, but also in South Korea, Romania, and Italy.

A project inspired by the Cabinet de Curiosités, the art show brought together 27 artists exploring the border between reality, imagination, and the surreal.

“The Temple of Dreams” was the title of the new edition of the Visionary Art Show – an unusual and visionary art project conceived back in 2010 by Primo Piano LivinGallery and directed and curated by Dores Sacquegna.

The event combined contemporary art with cinema, theater, poetry, and music. A living story that brought to the stage 27 dreamers of art brut, underground, neo-surrealist, pop, and fantasy art and their “cult objects” in a production that transformed the Renaissance venue of the Palmieri Foundation into a Cabinet de Curiosités, involving visitors in an immersive experience with the curiosity and wonder typical of a wonder room.

The show opened a window onto the collective imagination, where representation became writing, body, and moving image of the present time.

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