*Prof. Vaughan Grylls

The art of Parvaneh Farid celebrates the unity of
religion as expressed by Bahá’u’lláh, the all-embr
-acing religion in which Parvaneh firmly believes.

This notion of the unity of religion finds expression
in the unifying elements of her work in both a formal
and spiritual sense.

In a formal sense, creativity ignores boundaries.
Thus photography, music, dance, performance,
together with any material that can be usefully
employed, are all used as one to make powerful art
not easily forgotten.

The belief in the unity of religion grows, of course,
out of a belief in the unity of God and extend in a
notion of the unity of mankind in all its diversity.

The spiritual content in Parvaneh Farid’s work is
universal, yet it finds its home and, in deed,
ruthless suppression in Parvaneh’s native Iran.

In that ancient and historically tolerant country,
followers of Bahá’u’lláh have been systematically
persecuted for believing in, among other things,
the equality of men and women and the elimination
of prejudice.

Parvaneh Farid’s recent statements are an
impassioned and articulate rebuke to her religion’s
persecutors, in the form of eloquent and original
works of art.

“Prof. Vaughan Grylls”