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																			Katayoun 
																			Rouhi
																			
																			 
																			
																			
																			Born 
																			in 
																			Iran 
																			on 
																			December 
																			1965From 
																			the 
																			Artist’s 
																			eye
 The 
																			pictoriality 
																			of 
																			painting 
																			and 
																			the 
																			orality 
																			of 
																			poetry 
																			come 
																			across 
																			one 
																			another 
																			in 
																			her 
																			work 
																			and 
																			resonate 
																			together. 
																			It 
																			is 
																			concerned 
																			with 
																			the 
																			poesies 
																			of 
																			painting, 
																			its 
																			very 
																			beginning, 
																			and 
																			searches 
																			for 
																			the 
																			essential 
																			link 
																			between 
																			poetry 
																			and 
																			representation. 
																			She 
																			says 
																			that 
																			She 
																			paints  
																			poems. 
																			They 
																			tell 
																			her 
																			about 
																			her 
																			painting 
																			and 
																			present 
																			in a 
																			graphic 
																			way 
																			what 
																			her 
																			painting 
																			attempts 
																			to 
																			reveal 
																			through 
																			visual 
																			signs.
 She 
																			makes 
																			out 
																			a 
																			singular 
																			being 
																			in 
																			her 
																			paintings. 
																			This 
																			singularity 
																			is 
																			achieved 
																			through 
																			her 
																			memory 
																			in a 
																			kind 
																			of 
																			game 
																			where 
																			the 
																			image 
																			gradually 
																			appears. 
																			It 
																			comes 
																			into 
																			existence 
																			by 
																			the 
																			way 
																			it 
																			is 
																			made.
 
																			
																			
																			She 
																			Graduated 
																			from 
																			Ecole 
																			des 
																			Beaux-Arts 
																			of 
																			Paris, 
																			peinting 
																			section 
																			and 
																			got 
																			her 
																			Doctorate 
																			in 
																			Aesthetics 
																			and 
																			Sciences 
																			of 
																			Art, 
																			Paris 
																			I, 
																			Panthéon-sorbonne 
																			
																			
																			
																			Katayoun says:If 
																			the 
																			viewer 
																			could 
																			see,  
																			beyond 
																			the 
																			outward 
																			patterns, 
																			another 
																			one 
																			from 
																			his 
																			inner 
																			self, 
																			to  
																			take  
																			him 
																			not 
																			to 
																			other 
																			seasons 
																			and 
																			gardens 
																			here 
																			and 
																			there,   
																			but 
																			to 
																			another 
																			season 
																			and 
																			the 
																			garden 
																			trees 
																			of 
																			his 
																			unknown 
																			inner 
																			self,  
																			I 
																			would 
																			then 
																			say 
																			to 
																			myself 
																			that 
																			I 
																			have 
																			reached 
																			my 
																			goal 
																			, 
																			that 
																			these 
																			trees 
																			have 
																			been 
																			the 
																			seasons 
																			of 
																			my 
																			passage 
																			through 
																			my 
																			own 
																			inner 
																			self 
																			and 
																			therefore 
																			portray 
																			“ a 
																			garden 
																			beyond”.
 
																			  
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