Forough Haghani
A quilted fabric face framed by bands of purple, brown, orange and green fabric, hung from a loop
Untitled, 2022. Fabric and thread, 45 × 55 cm

Drawing, thread and soft sculpture

Forough
Haghani

فروغ حقانی

Forough Haghani is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Rasht, near Iran’s Caspian coast. Her work explores femininity, motherhood and growth with a psychoanalytic eye. It began with drawn faces, moved into oil pastel and now lives in thread and fabric.

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Selected works

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Picasso’s Dream: A quilted fabric face lying on its side inside rings of beaded and stuffed fabric bandsPicasso’s Dream, 2024Our Dance Comes from Within: A fabric dress on a hanger, covered with small embroidered faces and fringes of coloured threadOur Dance Comes from Within, 2024One Day the Hard Will Become Easy: A stitched patchwork hung from a twisted wire rod, with a root of thread growing from its lower edgeOne Day the Hard Will Become Easy, 2024
Reyhaneh: A potted plant with veined green leaves and a purple flower spike, sewn from fabric over wireReyhaneh, 2025Eight Flowers, Thirty-Three Leaves: Pink fabric flowers and green leaves with long wire roots, on a white wallEight Flowers, Thirty-Three Leaves, 2024Me, Others: A woman in a mirror above a table crowded with cosmeticsMe, Others, 2023

Latest

The artist installing a large fabric plant with long roots in the gallery

2026 · First solo exhibition

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Aknoon Art Gallery, Isfahan, 25 September to 6 October 2026. Planned for six days, the exhibition was extended to twelve.

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