Artwork description:

Pigment print on acid-free cotton paper 300g, Semi-gloss. Limited edition of 5. Each print comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, indicating that it is my original work. Each print is hand-signed, numbered, titled and dated on the back. All prints are shipped rolled in a protective hard tube to all countries worldwide.

Parental Advisory. Explicit images.
These Images are made for artistic purposes only. No one was hurt during the making of these images and everyone participated on their own free will.

"I grew up in a family that fled from Iran as political refugees. My dad was a fighter pilot in the army in Iran but when we fled to sweden his authority got crumbled. He was no longer the man he used to be. Something dark had entered his soul. This dark cloud of anger, hate, and violence spread across my whole childhood and left me scarred and filled with anxiety and obsessive thoughts.

The first time I picked up a camera and started documenting my life at the age of 16 something woke inside of me. A feeling of power came to me. I didn’t feel that I was holding a piece of creative equipment. I was holding a weapon. This was the weapon that we’re going to give me the revenge I had sought after for so many years. I began studying in Sweden’s biggest art school and got obsessed with photography. I started photographing my parents as a part of a school assignment. At first I took portraits of them. But then I started humiliating them in the images. Putting on silly animals masks. I took this a step further a few years later. I wanted to photograph my parents in the same way as I’d pictured them so many times. Dead. Murdered and dumped in the woods. Bloody and dirty bodies with pale skin and blood red eyes. My parents did it together with me. The project became an exhibition called To Mom, Dad and my two brothers. It consisted of photographs but also a very deeply personal text about my hate and anger towards my parents. They came to the exhibition and saw and read everything. They didn’t say anything. I didn’t say anything either. Everything I wanted to say to them was screaming at them from the images on the white walls."

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