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Mitra Jashni (Persian: میترا جشنی; born ِ16 December 1976) is an Iranianpost-modern artist. She specializes in the mediums of painting, drawing, and sculpture. She is an art teacher, translator, author and singer of Iranian contemporary music. As of 2014, she had worked as an artist for more than ten years in Iran, Canada, South America, and Europe. She is one of the founders of farashgard, an Iranian political action.
Personal life
Jashni was born in Iran on 16 December 1976. She received a Master in Painting & Art degree from Tehran's Soore University, in 2008.
Artist
Her works creates a distance between herself, men of her society and all women of the world. The characters of her paintings don't depict overt sexuality. Instead they show frightened women, who wear masks to protect them from the outside world. Her colored girls express modesty and shame. They know nothing about their maturity, leaving the opposite gender the giant to be discovered.
Her art expanded into poetry, and she became a writer. The connections between her painting and poetry are visible. Her favorite influences are artists Jaime Zapata and Shirin Neshat.
