Signature Drop #001: Newsha Tavakolian “Girl Smelling a Rose” Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) In Chicago

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Signature Drop #001: Newsha Tavakolian “Girl Smelling a Rose” Size:16 x 20 in (40 x 50 cm) In ChicagoNewsha Tavakolian directly engages her archive by hand signing and titling 16x20 prints of Girl Smelling a Rose. The five image portrait from the late 1990s features a girl immersed in the scent of a red rose. The interplay between past and present emerges through a succession of altered images that urge viewers to look again, mirroring Tavakolians perspective shift from external observation toward self reflection. The images within this piece are