Salimeh Motamedi and the Art of Protest
This painting, presented at Menart Fair Paris 2025, gives visual form to the silent outcry of women and their collective pain through a vivid and impassioned language of color.
This painting, presented at Menart Fair Paris 2025, gives visual form to the silent outcry of women and their collective pain through a vivid and impassioned language of color.
For its 6th edition, the fair will explore the strength of softness, delving into the subtle balance between vulnerability and quiet power.
The aesthetic structure of this work rests upon contrast—a reflection of the dual nature of the feminine world: sensitive and vulnerable, yet resilient and full of energy.
Salimeh Motamedi gravitates toward abstraction in her painterly practice, often employing brushstrokes, textures, and colors as an independent language of painting.
In Salimeh Motamedi’s Untitled series, every brushstroke feels like a wound on the canvas, alluding to contemporary history. The clash of light and dark layers creates a visual rhythm that speaks at once of violence and release. Out of this tension emerge shadowy figures—echoes of social pressures, resistance, and hope.
This work is the embodiment of the essence of Sama: a flow of light, the liberation of the soul. Through color, form, and movement, Salimeh Motamedi has translated a mystical experience into a visual language.
Salimeh Motamedi (b. 1962, Isfahan) is an Iranian painter whose works stand at the intersection of spirituality, mysticism, and contemporary social concerns. When her paintings were presented by Martex Road and BAAT Group at Frankfurt Art Fair 2024, at Rachel Bianchi Archive, Milan (2025), and at ITHAQUE Gallery, Paris (2025), they were met with remarkable acclaim.
RECENT NEWS