Resolution Series Oil Painting

This oil painting from the Resolution series explores rupture and renewal through torn surfaces and reimagined Qajar iconography

Artwork Description

 about this oil painting

This oil painting belongs to The Resolution Series, a deeply symbolic body of work rooted in personal experience and accident. The collection began when a Qajar-inspired painting in the artist’s studio unexpectedly tore through a floral study canvas.

In that instant, Hamed perceived something powerful, an unseen force trying to break free from tradition, surface, and silence. That act of rupture gave birth to a new visual language: where tears represent tension, transition, and spiritual escape. The torn surface became a metaphor for a living presence in captivity a soul pushing past decorative illusion.

Each painting in the series merges elements of Qajar portraiture with dynamic contemporary gestures and written fragments. Hamed draws from Persian iconography, birds, flowers, and historical figures, yet unsettles their beauty by cutting through the surface.

The works embrace imperfection and deterioration to reflect on cultural aging, historical distortion, and emotional disruption. Qajar images, often idealized and ornamental, are reframed here as outdated masks, ripe for reinterpretation and release. The result is a compelling dialogue between memory and modernity, tradition and transgression, healing and harm.

Textural layering and strategic tearing interrupt painterly harmony, making the act of rupture an essential part of the narrative. Brushwork is expressive, with deliberate tension between control and spontaneity. Muted tones meet rich pigment, deep reds, antique golds, pale creams, highlighting emotional contrast and historical weight.

Script and surface work together to blur boundaries between visual and literary storytelling. The paintings invite viewers to witness not only what is seen, but what has been wounded and mended.

Hamed is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, poetry, and literature. He has exhibited in more than ten solo shows and fifty group exhibitions internationally. 

His works have appeared at the Tehran Auction and in leading galleries in Paris, Istanbul, and beyond. He has served as a juror in major Iranian art festivals and is widely collected around the world. His works are held in prominent collections, including the Mortazavi Treasury Foundation.

View his Dubai collection of available paintings here

copyright

This oil painting is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.