Sanam Khatibi ‘Cyanide’ object Except this is a theatre

Except this is a theatre without words

Barbara De Coninck writes a text to accompany the drawings and frames them in art history

Sur sa tête

Carina Diepens

Sanam Khatibi ‘Cyanide’ object Except this is a theatreThis publication focuses on Sanam Khatibis meticulously painted small still lifes. With the finest brush she applies light and shadow in oil paint to various miniature shapes. The compositions themselves are quite unassuming. Objects loom haphazardly from the golden or black background and seem to sing in polyphony in the vein of Orlando di Lasso, Johannes Ockeghem and other masters of polyphony. () The highly detailed objects come from a golden age