In Giti Tayebi’s paintings, the visual language of persian miniature is reimagined as floating planes of color and newly articulated divisions of space. Drawing on the lineage of modern and contemporary Iranian painting—from Hossein Kazemi to Shahriar Ahmadi—she preserves the sensibility of traditional imagery while simultaneously disrupting its familiarity. Through this shift, the radiant palette of classical painting becomes fluid and unsettled, and her brushwork transforms the genre’s characteristic delicacy into vibrant, mobile, and assertive color forms. In several works, the metamorphosis of these chromatic fragments into elements of landscape and sky propels the paintings toward an altered visual territory. What emerges from her acts of citation and deconstruction is at once an homage to the past and a departure from it—a distinct approach to space and color rooted in, yet liberated from, the structural foundations of persian painting.

Behnam Kamrani