Welcome Edition # 9: Sheida Soleimani
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SHEIDA SOLEIMANI
WELCOME EDITION #9
Kooha Laleh Daran (There Are Tulips in the Mountains)
Lost-wax cast aluminum, solvent based red dye oxide brushed on application
2023
Edition of 100
For Wave Pool's 9th Welcome Edition, Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani created a field of 100 cast aluminum tulips, representing the first 100 protestors that have been killed in Iran since the slaying of Mahsa Amini in September of 2022.
Red tulips are a long-standing revolutionary symbol in Iran, associated with martyrdom. The resulting group of sculptures were displayed upright off of the ground in a grid to form a “field” of flowers for visitors. As individual sculptures, the tulips were "plucked" from the field and laid flat on a small platform covered in a wallpaper photo print by Soleimani.
Each tulip is unique, originally sculpted in wax by a refugee artisan before being cast with a name of one of the first hundred protestors killed in Iran written onto the leaves in both Farsi and English.
Wave Pool's Welcome Project empowers Cincinnati’s refugee and immigrant population while connecting, assisting, and inspiring all through art and food.
Proceeds go towards support for the upcoming Fall 2025 Exhibition Sheida Soleimani: What A Revolutionary Must Know