Shabnam Ghafghazi – Simorgh

The work entitled Simorgh is inspired by a famous literary work by Attar, and focuses on the theme of a myth of Iranian literature. The basis of each person’s vision and thought are formed according to the situations and conditions experienced by the individual. Attar’s work that tells of the birds’ desperate struggle to find their Utopia, or their lost paradise, reflects all the sensations, personal and mental experiences experienced by myself during my individual and social life. In other words Simorgh is the expression of all the loneliness and restrictions imposed by the social condition of my country, which my individual life has undergone. Simorgh is the expression of an individual, whose enormous potential is imprisoned and sealed in a cage, from which he is unable to free himself in order to fully realize himself.