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Zohreh VahidiFard (Born in Tehran on 17 July 1963) is a Iranina painter and sculptor. VahidiFard in young ages becomes interested in Art due to her mother who knew traditional arts. She learned arts with a passion, and despite the obstacles finally, she succeeds to go to the university and get a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Painting, and also a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. After a few years of doing paintings and setting up solo and group exhibitions in Iran, she figured out that her desires can’t satisfy just with the canvas and she liked to design large Spaces. In order to achieve her goal, she passed courses with Iranian sculpture tutors and start to make sculptures in big sizes. Until now, she held 7 Individual exhibitions and 83 Group exhibitions as a Painter and Sculpture. She has started her professional career in Iran since 1995. In 2002, she held her first concept artwork with the name of “fresh air" in the gallery of the Tehran Book. This work of her becomes so well known that later, she chose the picture of this work for her business card. Vahidifard’s favorite material is Iron and steel and one of the specific properties of her works is using light. She uses light and shadows in her works so when the audiences see her works, not only the solid sculpture will be in their eyes, also the light and shadows speak to them. Other material which she works with, is Stone. One of her works in 2014 with the subject of “Fly” and stone technique had been shown in Italy's Pietraia Dei Poeti. Currently, her most famous works are a collection of sculptures titled “Simurgh” and “30 birds” (In Persian, which means Si-Murgh). From this collection, Simurgh (5) with a size of 580 and 1340 cm and a height of 230 cm is one of her largest urban sculptures in these series. Simurgh (5) has been displayed in Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada, in 2017. VahidiFard believes that in this period that there is a great need for honesty, trust, coherence, and self-control, Simurgh is a symbol of purpose, love, contentment, unity, selflessness, perfection, and power of healing.

30 birds (si-murgh)
From this collection, the 30 birds (Si-Murgh) is an urban space statue that was exhibited at the Castlegar Sculpture Walk in Castlegar, Canada in 2015. This work has been done with an iron technique and has a dimension of 240 * 360 * 250 cm. The Thirty birds (2) was installed in the Penticton Public Sculpture in Penticton, Canada in 2017. Another piece of this collection is the 30 birds (Si-Murgh) Peace (44). In 2018, this Sculpture was exhibited in by the Sea, Cottesloe 2018, in Perth, Australia. 30 birds (Si-Murgh) Peace (44) is in the dimensions of 175 * 210 * 210 cm and it had been made of iron.

Simurgh
The largest sculpture of vahidifard’s famous series has been installed in 2017 in the Castlegar Sculpture Walk in Castlegar, Canada. The name of this work is Simurgh (5), which is done with an iron technique and has a dimension of 230 * 580 * 1340 cm.

Main insight into her work
The allegory of the Simurgh (30 birds (Si-Murgh)) is inspired by one of the Iranian traditional stories. This story narrates the life of a group of birds that lived under the oppression of hunters and constantly being hunted by them. Until they couldn’t bear anymore, so they gathered around their wise bird, Hod Hod. Hod Hod promised them that “there is a bird in a far land, which knows the answer”. With this promise, the birds decided to emigrate and flew to the unknown land. These birds encountered a number of difficulties along the way, some of them got tired and unable to continue, some of them died and just a few of them made it and reached to the Promised Land. They stopped there, but they couldn’t see any bird there, as Hod Hod told them. They were tired, so they rest. After a while, they looked at each other and noticed that they are thirty birds. Only the thirty birds which had suffered all the torment and suffering of the long and hard path reached to the promising land. There they found that the wise bird was actually their own. These thirty birds crossed the seven stages of goal, love, knowledge, contentment, unity, selflessness, and completion, so they finally united and shaped together a bird, which called "Simurgh" In this myth, the Simurgh is a symbol of humanity that has reached the concept of the soul and body.