Through the play with perspective, symbolic motifs and maze-like printmaking, Mostafa Sarabi’s paintings are supernatural while colliding with natural imagery. Portraits of his family, recurring dreams of footballers, Persian myths, suns, moons and forests inhabit the whimsical landscape of the Iranian artist’s works. Existing at the intersection of reality and fantasy, memory and representation, the artist’s human subjects turn their backs at the viewing or have trees and branches in the way of their faces. Other works dwell on the mysterious nature of the animals, with one painting depicting the artist’s father as a lion, or another showing a bright, white horse standing amidst blood-red trees. Sarabi’s forests are landscapes are luring and mythical, originating straight from the artist’s dreams. ...
