Sahar Ghavami The Boy Who Cried Fox (2022)

Acrylic on canvas
encadré : 50h × 30l cm

The first in a series exploring a slow-moving catastrophe, one long anticipated and repeatedly dismissed. A boy crouches at the edge of a burning forest, dressed in the skin of a fox, and the ambiguity is deliberate. Did he take it, or did he earn it? Is he mourner or perpetrator, infiltrator or ally? He prods a body with a stick, enacting a familiar human gesture of uncertain conscience: testing for what he cannot yet fully confront. Behind him, the trees burn; beyond them, quietly, something sprouts. The work resists resolution, holding open the question of whether this moment marks an ending, or a continuation under altered conditions. The painting establishes a key premise within Sahar Ghavami’s broader series, where catastrophe unfolds gradually, often misread as progress. Within this framework, the figure appears as part of a larger system of entanglement, caught between recognition and denial. The fox is positioned within the same conditions of pressure and survival. Warnings, issued by scientists, by the land, by the gradual disappearance of animal life, remain unheeded. In line with the series grounding in the decline of fox populations in Iran, the work situates this image within a broader ecology of loss shaped by human expansion and inattention.

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Cette œuvre est une pièce originale et a été signée personnellement par l'artiste.

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The Boy Who Cried Fox

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