Fereshteh Farmand is a full-time painter and illustrator with over 25 years of experience.
Her work explores the profound connection between humans and nature, celebrates the beauty of the present moment, and reflects a deeper inquiry into our place in the universe.
Over the years, she has illustrated numerous books for children and young adults, contributed artwork to various magazines, and created large-scale mural paintings. Her versatile practice spans both traditional and digital media, allowing her to explore a wide spectrum of visual storytelling.
Sleeping in the Wind
Exhibition Statement
In Sleeping in the Wind, the boundary between human and nature dissolves. The body grows roots, becomes branches, and the skin fades into the breeze. These works are a surreal-expressionist reflection on a forgotten yet eternal connection — the bond between the contemporary human and their ancient natural origin.
The girls depicted in these paintings symbolize the modern human. They do not simply rest in nature’s arms as observers, but as parts of it — intertwined, inseparable, and breathing in unison. The line between skin and leaf, hair and wind, body and tree, begins to vanish.
Through this entanglement, the artist portrays a person seeking refuge from the rigid routines of modern life and the weight of existential anxiety — escaping not into fantasy, but into the present moment, into nature, into timelessness.
Sleeping in the Wind is more than a poetic gesture; it is an existential echo of the longing to live authentically. The girls in these works find unity with nature in the stillness of the wind — not as an escape, but as a return. A return to a place where being is simply being. This collection is a quiet reminder that, at our core, we are nature. And perhaps the path to healing lies not in resisting it, but in embracing it once again.
