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SELECTED WORK FOR MANCHESTER OPEN 2026
Monarch’s Mirage: An Artist’s Royal Reverie
Collection – 2024
Acrylic and pencil on paper 50cm x 65cm
THE KING I AM - Monarch's Mirage: An Artist's Royal Reverie - Collection 2024 is one of nine paintings in the series exploring the fragile nature of power and the illusions of authority. Rather than portraying kingship as grandeur, this work destabilises it, showing sovereignty as self invented and always on the verge of collapse. Drawing on Iran's turbulent history with monarchy and contemporary struggles over authority, it reflects on the fleeting, unstable nature of power and the delicate tension between perception and reality.