Welcome Edition # 9: Sheida Soleimani

SHEIDA SOLEIMANI WELCOME EDITION #9Kooha Laleh Daran (There Are Tulips in the Mountains)Lost-wax cast aluminum, solvent based red dye oxide brushed on application2023 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. W