“Untitled" by Sanaz Fehri— from the Painful Rebirth exhibition

Artist: Sanaz Fehri

Material: Ostrich Egg, Ceramic, Acrylic Paint

Artist Statement : 

“Untitled"

This work begins with an egg; a closed and silent form that has long carried an unseen potential within. Its surface has opened through cracks traced in gold—as if the wound has risen not to be concealed, but to be witnessed. These fractures are not marks of failure; they are traces of time, of pressure, of living.

From either side of this shell, wings begin to emerge—delicate, yet weary. Wings that still bear the lines of fracture, and yet have not abandoned their impulse to unfold. Here, flight is not a sudden leap, but a slow and difficult effort; a movement born from within constraint.

This work takes shape along an unseen boundary between the personal and the collective—where exhaustion and hope coexist. What unfolds on a larger scale finds its echo within; a cycle of endurance, breaking, and the desire for release.

The Simurgh appears here not as a distant myth, but as an inner possibility—a flight that can begin even with fractured wings. This perspective is influenced by the philosophy of Suhrawardi, where liberation does not arrive from the outside, but emerges from within, through the passage across darkness. For the artist, these narratives are not merely sources of inspiration, but lived experiences; each work carrying a trace of this ongoing journey.