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Biography
Nahid Sereshki was born in 1957 in Tehran.
She took interest in painting as a child. She wrote poems and stories along with painting. Her literary activities include the publishing of the books Identical Twin, which is a collection of poems, in the year 2000, the World of Two Huts, a collection of poems published in the year 2001, and a collection of short stories entitled 319, published in 2003, and The Sky will not Lose Anything in the year 2005. However, she is familiar with the pallet and the canvass more than with any literary activity and this familiarity has been depicted in her paintings.
Sereshki began her professional artistic career in the recent decade, i.e. in 1995. Since then, we have witnessed her literary and artistic activities in the press and professional journals.
The concept of humanistic art is always present in her works and one can always trace human issues, including women’s issues, in her paintings. So far, she has held two exhibitions for her works at Banu Cultural Center and the Ra’d Charity Center, selling her works in favor of children of Bam and the handicapped.
She lives a simple life. Sometimes earning a living affects the promotion of her goals yet this is the inevitable destiny of hers and other artists throughout the history and such problems not only have not made her give up but also have made her resist and be bolder in her art.
She sees bright horizons in her work, saying, “There will be a time when my paintings will be where they should be.”
Her style is mannerism. She works on rough objects. She invites coarse fibers into art in a way that one can find the tenderest visual music in her works. The downy, cross fibers of gunny sometimes form the background of a rebellious woman and sometimes a child in a mother’s womb, and sometimes …
Sereshki says, “The fibers that form my canvass are made of sea algae and hemps. The gunny has a rough surface with which I can better convey the roughness around me. I escape from the techniques of the day and do not want my free nature to be captive to any contract.” Based on the same way of thinking, I did not learn painting with any master, with her nature and talent being her only teacher.