{"id":94,"date":"2025-11-07T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honargardi.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:08:21","slug":"interview-with-bibi-setareh-manavi-simine-paris-group-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honargardi.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/interview-with-bibi-setareh-manavi-simine-paris-group-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Bibi Setareh Manavi \u2013 Simine Paris Group Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the group exhibition hosted by Simine Paris from 25 to 28 September 2025 at 24 Rue de Penthi\u00e8vre, 75008 Paris, we had the pleasure of speaking with the Franco-Iranian multidisciplinary artist Bibi Setareh Manavi.
The exhibition brought together Mehrdad Naraghi, Nastaran Safaei, and Bibi Manavi, three artists who embody a generation rooted in Iranian cultural heritage while fully engaged with global contemporary expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Manavi reimagines the Iranian mirror-mosaic craft Aineh-Kari, replacing traditional geometric tessellations with biomorphic patterns derived from the cellular structures of endangered plants. Her mirrored sculptural panels intertwine ecological disappearance with personal reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition also featured works from her Memory of Plane Trees (2024) series\u2014sculptural meditations on urban plane trees as vessels of shifting collective memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This interview was produced by Kasra Aliha, with cinematography directed by Behnood Massoumi, in Paris.
A heartfelt thank-you to Leila Varasteh for her invaluable support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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