Parastou Forouhar (Persian; پرستو فروهر) (born 1962 in Tehran)[1] is an Iranian installation artist who lives and works out of Frankfurt, Germany.
The loss of her parents, Dariush and Parvaneh, fuels Forouhar's work and challenges viewers to take a stand on war crimes against innocent citizens.
[4] Her parents were stabbed to death in their home on November 22 of 1998 by a secret operation of Iranian Intelligence service, which is widely known as the Chain Murder.
[5] Forouhar's work is autobiographical in nature and responds to the politics that have shaped and defined contemporary Iranian citizenship both in Iran and abroad.
[6] She works within a range of media including site specific installation, animation,[7] digital drawing, photography, signs and products.
In 2002, the Iranian Cultural Ministry censored Forouhar's photo exhibition, Blind Spot, a collection of images depicting a veiled, gender-neutral figure with a bulbous, featureless face.
[4] In 2012 she received the Sophie von La Roche Award in recognition for her work that confronts issues concerning displacement, gender and cultural identity.