17th Fajr Visual Arts Festival to kick off

The Tehran province section of the 17th Fajr Visual Arts Festival, featuring My Homeland segment, is set to be launched on Tuesday.

To be held at Rasul-e Mehr Gallery in Tehran, the provincial artistic event will showcase the works of 15 selected artists from the capital city in different fields, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, photography, installation art, performance art, and printmaking.

Leila Banki, Saman Shadanlou, Zohreh Hassani, Mohammad Kariminia, and Mehrad Mehrkish are among the selected artists participating in the festival.

This edition of the festival will be held in a non-competitive format, focusing on the subcultures, traditions, and local arts of different Iranian provinces.

My Homeland section of the festival will also take place across all the provinces, featuring exhibitions of artists' works curated by the festival’s provincial artistic directors.

Under the artistic management of Behdad Najafi Asadollahi, the Tehran province section of the event will run until February 18.