Afghan artworks on exhibition in Iran cultural center

Artworks by Afghan artists have been put on display at a cultural center in the Iranian capital city of Tehran.

The event under the title 'Nimrouz Exhibition' are currently underway at Tehran’s Niavaran Cultural Center.

The exhibit has been organized by Iranian sculptor Maryam Kuhestani, with the name of the event taken from a province in Afghanistan.

“The entire idea was my own since I had worked with Afghan children here in Tehran and was looking for a way to display works by professional Afghan artists,” she said, while going on to describe the difficulty in gathering Afghan artists for the event.

“If the war is reflected in their works, it is not filled with stereotypes, it actually reflects the living experience of an artist, and they really have something to say. They have their own art and their own signature. It was not important where they live, what they have studied and what language they speak,” she added.

Kuhestani plans to take the artworks to Afghanistan for an exhibition, which will probably be held in May 2018.

The Nimrouz Exhibition opened last Friday at the Niavaran Cultural Center and will be running for two weeks.

AI/AG