While the days passed
Artist Name
Arghavan Monajati
Artist Statement
Arghavan Monajati is an Iranian contemporary visual artist working primarily in painting. Her practice explores the body, industrial landscapes, memory, and identity, examining the relationship between organic and industrial forms.
Drawing on contemporary philosophy and conceptual art, her work reflects on transformation, technology, and contemporary life.
Monajati’s work has been presented internationally across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and recognized in several international art competitions.
Exhibition Statement
Artist Statement
While the Days Passed was created during the war, when everyday life gave way to waiting and uncertainty. Rather than documenting the conflict, painting became a way of moving through a time that had lost its familiar rhythm.
As the series developed, the boundary between outside events and the paintings gradually dissolved. Without being directly depicted, war entered their visual language.
These works remain as traces of those days—a way of continuing through time.
Arghavan Monajati
2026
