TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – The daughter of Iran’s opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since early 2011, hides her pain behind abstract watercolor paintings of birds and blossoms – but bullets and bars are never far away.
That’s according to Narges Mousavi’s latest art exhibition, which opened on Friday in Tehran.
The display, entitled “When it Dawned,” is the second public showing of her art since her father was placed under house arrest along with another opposition leader, Mahdi Karroubi.
The two led Iran’s Green Movement and street protests challenging then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 2009 re-election. No charges have been raised against Mousavi and Karroubi. Both are 75 years old.
At the exhibition’s opening at the “House of Free Designers” gallery in Tehran, Narges said her paintings are “about the contrast between coarseness of war and elegance of peace.”