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Sanam Khatibi (Iranian-Belgian, 1979) - Under the Influence of Poison (2018)
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Sanam Khatibi (Belgian b. 1979 in Iran), Garden Scene (it is said they are each other), 2022. Oil and pencil on canvas, 210 x 300 cm. | 82 5/8 x 118 1/8 in.
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Sanam Khatibi, Violets for my furs, 2015, Oil and pastel on canvas, 19 5/8 x 15 5/8 ins, 50 x 40 cm
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There Is Something about a Man in a Uniform -- Sanam Khatibi
There Is Something about a Man in a Uniform, 2016 by Sanam Khatibi (b. 1979)
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“A beautiful figure without a tongue”, 2024, oil and pencil on canvas
“Open Season”, 2024, oil and pencil on canvas
“Where our love once lay, a dark and tortured jungle grew”, 2023, oil and pencil on canvas
A sense of foreboding looms over the paintings in Sanam Khatibi’s exhibition We Wait Until Dark at P.P.O.W gallery. In the details are smaller skeletons, ritual objects, and dead animals blood soaks the ground. Life and death are personified in both the figures and the natural surroundings. Flowers bloom or wilt, bones are scattered, a hummingbird shares a moment with a skeleton in one painting while a dead bird lies on the ground in another. Khatibi’s works have many potential meanings, like their art historical predecessors, and leave it to the viewer to come to their own conclusions.
From the press release-
…People who devote their lives to art can often cite an event that placed them on their destined path. Among the earliest memories Belgian artist Sanam Khatibi recalls is the day she discovered a book on Hieronymous Bosch left out on the table by her mother. She was five. That one might advance from consuming the rapturous reproductions of The Garden of Earthly Delights at such a young age to painting expansive, primal scenes of a troubled Paradise is one excellent example of artistic “fate.”
In Khatibi’s paintings and sculptures, the veil between desire and restraint, life and death, and the natural and spirit worlds proves thin. Again and again, the artist returns to the figure of a nude goddess navigating a verdant, savage land beyond the protective scrim of “civilization.” In the absence of technology, politics, bills, e-mail, and even clothing, she exhibits her most feral qualities for survival: devouring, eating, attacking, killing, and hunting. Khatibi’s subjects are perennial (desire, seduction, domination, submission), and her references to allegorical forms are extensive (17th-century Dutch still life vanitas, the motif of Death and the Maiden, antiquarian amulets, and anthropological relics), all channeled into displays of human folly and erotic obsession.
Paintings by Khatibi are full of expressions of voracity: for sex, earthly delights, experience, and transcendence, and what happens when you tempt the devil. In Where our love once lay, a dark and tortured jungle grew (2023), a fey skeleton seizes a beautiful maiden by the hair under a lightening blue sky –– a grotesque quid pro quo that recalls Lucas Cranach the Elders’ The Ill-Matched Couple (1553); or even Kawanabe Kyōsai’s Hell Courtesan (1831–1889). Decrepit and aging, his skull sprouts strawlike strands of hair, the last indication of vitality. In Open Season (2024), an Amazonian goddess places an intimate offering of amulets and animal sacrifices before a pool of water. There is a sense of reckless abandon: a human skull, a pomegranate cracked open, blood spilling over the cerulean earth––a feast for ravenous souls.
Khatibi’s Eden is repeatedly transformed into a Bosch-like tale of passionate, potentially fatal encounters (a locus amoenus turned upside down into a “locus terribilis”). In A beautiful figure without a tongue (2024), the skeletal personification of Death reappears. A maniacal grin spreads across his decaying face as he slinks away, clutching an ornate vase to his chest. Are these the spoils of Death to be hoarded in a cavernous underworld?
Throughout the exhibition, Khatibi faithfully intertwines two genres of painting (figurative landscape and still life), leaving seemingly ancillary details from one scene to reveal as sharp memento mori in another––as in Overnight Black Aphids Appeared, growing on the tips of the Sophora Sun King (2023). Here, the reappearance of skulls, amulets, and small creatures sans personnages gives the impression of a romantic sojourn set apart from the larger narrative. Each of Khatibi’s objects pulses into realism with near-scientific observation, appearing magnificent and fragile, possibly even forbidden. Placed against a velvety black ground, they fall into shadow as if pulled amorously into the afterlife. –Lola Kramer
Also included in the exhibition are several smaller works, like the one pictured below. In these darker paintings the details stand out against their black background, but the mystery of their meaning remains.
“Overnight Black Aphids Appeared, growing on the tips of the Sophora Sun King”, 2023 oil on canvas
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"Set in fantastical, utopian landscapes, Sanam Khatibi’s (b. 1979, Iran, based in Belgium) atemporal and allegorical works showcase primal impulses and unrestrained animality, wherein humans and beasts have little emotional or physical distinction. Channeling magical naturalism through paintings, tapestries, and sculptures, Khatibi both exalts and cautions against the fine line between triumph and failure, peace and brutality, and ultimately, civilization and destruction. Khatibi lives and works in Brussels, Belgium."
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Sanam Khatibi (Iranian-Belgian, 1979) - This is the Beast with a Thousand Mouths, That Must Be Fed Twice a Day (2019)
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Check out Sanam Khatibi, An hour before the Devil fell (2019), From P.P.O.W
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Sanam Khatibi (Iranian-Belgian, 1979)
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Unfastened gowns, 2018
Oil, pastel and pencil on panel
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Sanam Khatibi, The Beast (One Thousand Mouths Fed Twice a Day), 2019.
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Sanam Khatibi (Iranian-Belgian, 1979) - A Distinct Affection of a More Animal Kind (2016)
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Family Home in Notting Hill, London. Designed by Olivia Williams. The home features work by Sanam Khatibi + Mario Bellini + Ini Archibong.
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Sanam Khatibi
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Sanam Khatibi, A Distinct Affection of a more Animal Kind, 2016
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Sanam Khatibi Wild Mink 2018 Digital print on 100% Silk Twill, hand-rolled hemming
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Under the Influence of Poison -- Sanam Khatibi
Under the Influence of Poison — Sanam Khatibi
Under the Influence of Poison, 2018 by Sanam Khatibi (b. 1979)
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