Narges Mohammadi studied graphic design in Tehran and now lives there. Her works have been repeatedly selected for important international exhibitions: in Bologna, Zagreb, at the Illustrated Book Festival in Korea (CJ Picture Book Awards).
“In my illustrations, I usually use collage and monotype techniques, draw with a pencil and work with handmade paper. I try to limit myself to two or three colors and sometimes use paper that I have kept for many years. I like it when the work has an old, even antique feel. I also like it when some things are born completely unconsciously. I think that spontaneous moments in work are akin to poetry. This is how things turn out that I have never even thought about before. And that’s great!” Narges said in one of her interviews.
Narges is sure that it is possible and necessary to talk to children, including through pictures, about everything: war, violence, pain, death, anger and hatred. In the book “Good night Commander!” they, together with the writer Ahmad Akbarpour, tell the story of a boy who became crippled and lost his mother during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
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“I Was a Deer” by Ahmad Akbarpur is about a deer that has been severely injured. The deer knows that it must flee from the royal hunters. Narges Mohammadi studied graphic design in Tehran and now lives there. Her works have been repeatedly selected for important international exhibitions: in Bologna, […]
