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    'Is it art or pain?' Iran's Parastou Forouhar on family, death and the failed revolution

    Daughter of high-profile dissidents talks about how their murder nearly 20 years ago continues to inform her work
    by Saeed Kamali Dehghan Sep 29, 2017 3 minutes
    Parastou Forouhar says she finds ‘healing in repetition’ through her artwork. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist.

    Every autumn, the Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar returns to Tehran from Germany to hold a memorial service for her murdered parents.

    Dariush Forouhar, a secular politician, and his wife, Parvaneh, were two of Iran’s most high-profile political activists when they were stabbed to death in their home on 22 November 1998. The killers placed her father’s body in a chair facing towards the Qibla, the direction of Mecca.

    Forouhar, 55, remembers receiving a call from a BBC reporter asking when she had last spoken to her parents.

    “I called a close friend of

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