Ornamental Oppression Triptych Paintings

Ornamental Oppression is a powerful triptych that merges Persian geometric patterns with contemporary visual language. Artist Ghazal Rahimi transforms ornamental design from its historical role as a symbol of divine beauty into a tool for examining migration, cultural assimilation, and political alienation. The work invites contemplation on how cultural identity can be reclaimed, mended, and redirected toward progressive transformation. A thought-provoking piece for collectors drawn to conceptual art that challenges convention and celebrates resilience through visual disruption.

Artist: Ghazal Rahimi

Material: Oil on canvas with Wooden Frame

Dimensions: 20" x 20"

About the Artist:

Ghazal Rahimi is an Iranian Interdisciplinary visual artist based in Los Angeles. She was born in Tehran, Iran. She has received her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, and her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. Rahimi’s work moves between painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Within her practice, she explores and questions concepts and histories of migration, cultural assimilation, and conceptual ornamentation. Rahimi’s artworks are both materially experimental and research-based, with a conceptual core. Her work explores the feeling and thinking of political alienation, nostalgia, dreams, and being lost in time, and offers a new world that has a visual sense of instability, change, and being on the verge of revolution and transformation. Rahimi utilizes Islamic geometric patterns to represent societal rules and costumes, and shatters their designs, imagining liberation from cultural pressure and geopolitical borders, with mending and transformation taking shape in the process. By presenting the Islamic and abstract patterns out of their historical function (that was beauty and to show the notion of the divine,) She aims to bring attention to how cultural heritage could be reinvented and used as a corridor to progressive modernity and change.

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