Sanam Khatibi

(Born) 1979, Belgian with Iranian heritage
(Based) between Paris, France & Brussels, Belgium
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Sanam Khatibi’s works deal with animality, and our primal impulses. The core of her practice interrogates our relationship to power structures, specifically the duality of triumph and failure. The recurrent themes that often feature in her work question our relationship with excess, loss of control, bestiality, the male-female dynamics, domination and submission. She is also interested in the thin line that exists between fear and desire, and how closely they are interrelated. Her subjects live on their impulses in alluring, exotic landscapes. They are ambiguous with their relationship to power, violence, sensuality and each other. Wildlife and animals are an integral part of her practice, and her subjects are often depicted within the same plane as the flora and fauna. Her work consists of paintings, embroideries, tapestries, and sculptures.

She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Groeninge Museum in Bruges, Belgium; Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, Belgium; P.P.O.W, New York, NY USA; BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium; rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium; NICC, Brussels, Belgium; trampoline, Antwerp, Belgium; Island, Brussels, Belgium; and has shown in group exhibitions at Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; The 16th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, in Istanbul, Turkey; M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium; CRAC Occitanie, Sète, France; MAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France; Paul Kasmin Gallery; New York, NY USA; Christine König Gallery, Vienna, Austria and Museum of Deinze, Deinze, Belgium.

Her work is included in public collections such as Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Belfius Art Collection, Belgium; Province du Hainaut, Belgium; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.

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  • Sanam Khatibi, When you fall in your dreams, you die if you hit the ground
  • Sanam Khatibi, Je serais douce
  • Sanam Khatibi
  • Sanam Khatibi, Continental Charm
  • Sanam Khatibi, Tasting a piece of her gum
  • Sanam Khatibi, In my dreams, I kill him every night
  • Sanam Khatibi, Songs my mother thought me
  • Sanam Khatibi, In my dreams, I kill him every night
  • Sanam Khatibi, Garden Scene (It is said they are each other)
  • Sanam Khatibi, In my dreams, I kill him every night
  • Sanam Khatibi, Paradise
  • Sanam Khatibi, Lemon Drizzle
  • Sanam Khatibi, Up against a creature like you
  • Sanam Khatibi, Lemon Drizzle
  • Sanam Khatibi, I will bring you such glory
  • Sanam Khatibi, Lemon Drizzle
  • Sanam Khatibi, Atlantic
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cyanide
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cyanide
  • Sanam Khatibi, Everything is so awake now
  • Sanam Khatibi, Please forgive me if I have been too blunt
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cyanide
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cyanide
  • Sanam Khatibi, The smallest sounds are keeping me up
  • Sanam Khatibi, She can’t pass a mirror without seducing it
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cyanide
  • Sanam Khatibi, Deadly Nightshade
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cyanide
  • Sanam Khatibi, Venom from the Ruby of their Lips
  • Sanam Khatibi, Der abscheuliche Kuss
  • Sanam Khatibi, A few more crimes,
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cruelest of the seas
  • Sanam Khatibi, Venomous Beasts
  • Sanam Khatibi, Cruelest of the seas
  • Sanam Khatibi, Kingdom by the Sea
  • Sanam Khatibi, The Seventh Continent
  • Sanam Khatibi, The Seventh Continent
  • Sanam Khatibi, The Seventh Continent
  • Sanam Khatibi, De ta salive qui mord
  • Sanam Khatibi, De ta salive qui mord
  • Sanam Khatibi, De ta salive qui mord
  • Sanam Khatibi, De ta salive qui mord
  • Sanam Khatibi, Sinuous as a swan
  • Sanam Khatibi, The Murders of the Green River
  • Sanam Khatibi, Songs from the cold seas
  • Sanam Khatibi, The Murders of the Green River
  • Sanam Khatibi, The Murders of the Green River
  • Sanam Khatibi, You made me want to swallow poison
  • Sanam Khatibi, Chicken Soup,
  • Sanam Khatibi, Rivers in your mouth
  • Sanam Khatibi, Empire of the birds
  • Sanam Khatibi, Rivers in your mouth
  • Sanam Khatibi, Rivers in your mouth
  • Sanam Khatibi, Days and days without love
  • Sanam Khatibi, My tongue be torn out by its roots, should I ever lie to you
  • Sanam Khatibi, With tendresse and longing, Billboard Series #6
  • Sanam Khatibi, The broken island (dyptique)
  • Sanam Khatibi, The broken island (dyptique)
  • Sanam Khatibi, To save her I would murder the world,
  • Sanam Khatibi, rodolphe janssen
  • Sanam Khatibi, A venison of loveliness
  • Sanam Khatibi, In my sweetheart's arms
  • Sanam Khatibi, No one’s going quietly
  • Sanam Khatibi, With the valour of my tongue
  • Sanam Khatibi, No church in the wild
  • Sanam Khatibi, As ever, with love
  • Sanam Khatibi, Consumed by the Swallow
  • Sanam Khatibi, With tenderness and longing
  • Sanam Khatibi, The hollow in the ferns
  • Sanam Khatibi, From the moment I smelled her, I loved her
  • Sanam Khatibi, A distinction affection of a more animal kind
  • Sanam Khatibi, He hit me and it felt like a kiss
  • Sanam Khatibi
  • Sanam Khatibi, Le jardin décomposé
  • Sanam Khatibi, Everything's at home except your wife
  • Sanam Khatibi, I thought you'd might like to dance
  • Sanam Khatibi, If I had a tail
  • Sanam Khatibi, Violets for my furs

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