Nazanin Pouyandeh's 'J'ai été chassée du Paradis' at Galerie Sator
Nazanin Pouyandeh's painting 'J'ai été chassée du Paradis' (2019) is analyzed by Élisabeth Couturier in artpress. The work reinterprets Masaccio's 'Adam and Eve Expelled from Eden' (1424–25, Florence) with a feminist twist: the archangel is a woman in an Indian tunic, Eden is a lush forest, and Eve covers Adam's genitals. The triptych shows the couple kissing in a fire-ravaged landscape, a nude woman on a Greco-Roman head clutching a brocaded bag symbolizing female procreation, and a self-portrait of the artist painting the scene. Pouyandeh, who fled Iran at 18, uses the work as a manifesto against sexual oppression and ecological catastrophe. The solo exhibition at Galerie Sator in Paris opened a week before the Covid-19 lockdown and was closed from March 16 to July 15, 2020.
Key facts
- Nazanin Pouyandeh created 'J'ai été chassée du Paradis' in 2019.
- The painting reinterprets Masaccio's 'Adam and Eve Expelled from Eden' (1424–25).
- The work is a triptych with three sequences.
- The archangel is depicted as a woman in an Indian tunic.
- Eve covers Adam's genitals instead of her own.
- A nude woman sits on a Greco-Roman head holding a brocaded bag.
- The artist includes a self-portrait painting the scene.
- The exhibition at Galerie Sator ran from March 16 to July 15, 2020.
- Pouyandeh fled Iran at age 18.
- The painting addresses sexual freedom and ecological disaster.
Entities
Artists
- Nazanin Pouyandeh
- Masaccio
- Élisabeth Couturier
Institutions
- Galerie Sator
- artpress
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Florence
- Iran
Sources
- artpress —