Social work student Rahmani's art recalls her imprisonment in Iran

Anahita Rahmani, 53, now a social work student in Toronto, has created a sculpture based on her experience of imprisonment for eight years for political activity in Iran. Her husband died in another prison while she was inside.

Shahrzad Mojab, 55, a professor of women’s studies in Toronto has devised a project titled Words, Colour, Movement, involving two dozen people from Iran and Turkey who were political prisoners, of whom Rahmani is one. An exhibit of their work titled, Lines of Resistance: Prison Art from the Middle East, runs at Beit Zatoun Gallery, 612 Markham St., from April 9 to 17.

In Rahmani’s piece sculpted out of Plasticine, dark figures line up before firing squads and for floggings.

A picture and further details at: http://www.thestar.com/living/article/952898--from-prisoners-to-painters