{"title":"Ramina Saadatkhan","description":"\u003cp\u003eTales from the Caucasus artworks\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-union-of-fire-and-water","title":"Union of Fire and Water","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRendered in mixed media collage and paint, Ramina Saadatkhan’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnion of Fire and Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2025) is a beautifully layered work that unites a variety of different painting techniques to create an intense vision of nature. Flowers and foliage populate the canvas and open white flowers emit curving pistols connoting fertility. In the bottom a spiky yucca plant conceals an abstracted, enlarged pomegranate and the suggestion of a volcano, both representative of sexual desire and rebirth. A curved snake frames a human female face, whose blue and black locks then merge with an abstract swirl of blue water on the left of the canvas. Above her, a purple salamander spotted in yellow crawls over a textual element of the work. Created with torn book pages the extending legs below suggest this is a human figure assembled from collaged text. Through both the layering process and the symbolism within the work, Saadatkhan captures the interconnectivity of fire and water, and more broadly the tie between each animal, plant, and human, to one another. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086258495815,"sku":"RSA0009","price":13500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0351-EditHR.jpg?v=1769171610"},{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-experiment-number-3","title":"Experiment Number 3","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe third in her \u003cem\u003eExperiment \u003c\/em\u003eseries\u003cem\u003e, Experiment No. 3 \u003c\/em\u003eis set in the Garden of Eden. Eve plucks an apple from the forbidden tree whilst two figures to her right kiss and a snake slithers underfoot. In religious traditions, Adam and Eve are considered the first people created by God, and their story symbolizes the beginning of humanity and its trials. However, from a philosophical or science fiction perspective, they can also be interpreted as subjects of an experiment – perhaps a test of free will, moral choice, or the nature of human existence itself. In the small-scale painting Saadatkhan stays true to her signature style, employing collage techniques to construct a thought-provoking visual dialogue on this timeless theme as the interplay of materials and form mirrors its ambiguity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086260822343,"sku":"RSA0010","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0339-EditHR.jpg?v=1769172322"},{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-pomegranate-king","title":"Pomegranate King","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFeaturing bold, bright colours and striking patterns created by combining painted acrylic with collaged elements, at the centre of \u003cem\u003ePomegranate King\u003c\/em\u003e is a female portrait. Depicted in profile with flowing red and black locks, she is surrounded by split pomegranates suggesting abundance revealed through rupture, the fruit being a symbol of fertility, sacrifice and renewal across many Eastern cultures. The serpent recalls pre-patriarchal associations of wisdom, transformation, and knowledge. Masculine and feminine energies coexist, intertwined with nature rather than opposed to it – the female’s striped hair parallelling the black and red stripes of the snake. Through its fragmented collage structure, the work embraces contradiction: strength alongside vulnerability, power alongside care. This painting is part of a series in which Saadatkhan responds to Nietzsche’s idea of \u003cem\u003eUomo Natura\u003c\/em\u003e, which emphasises humanity as inseparable from nature, and argues for the embracing of nature and sexuality as a creative force. \u003cem\u003ePomegranate King\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a vision of leadership, not from an external monarch, but from a complex and contested inner drive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086272422215,"sku":"RSA0011","price":16200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0349-EditHR.jpg?v=1769171527"},{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-bride","title":"Bride","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Ancient Egyptian imagery Bride (2024) features two central figures set within a flattened blue space. In the bottom left corner of the painting a diamond pattern motif, overlaid with red and different shades of blue, recalls the great pyramids. The figure on the left is headless, the mound that protrudes from their torso crowned by a snaking line in red and blue that curves round like a tail to connect their standing legs which are collaged in pink and yellow paper. Two prominent breasts sit at the centre of the canvas – graphically drawn in a bold red outline they point towards the second figure. Shown in profile, as with the first figure, this one is more animalistic. A human body with the head of a beast, perhaps a ram or a dog, his  tongue snakes out towards the breasts beneath, the red of the tongue contrasting against the black of his head and the blue background, whilst from the right corner his arms reach out towards the smaller figure. Bride is a confrontational work that explores power, vulnerability, desire and subjugation,  within the contexts of myths, religions and everyday domestic relationships. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086278189383,"sku":"RSA0012","price":5400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0921-EditHR.jpg?v=1769531708"},{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-new-dress","title":"New Dress","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Dress (2025) by Ramina Saadatkhan unites collage and painting elements to create a bold dynamic work. Ferns and palms are depicted round the edge of the work as a combination of different patterns are used to create a layered, textual background. A sinuous pink and black line curves like a river horizontally across the top of the canvas and over a blue collaged section - suggestive of a figure and reminiscent of Matisse’s Icarus. On the left we see a small angel, denoted as ‘TURAN’ in capital letters beneath. The rendering of this figure differs from Saadatkhan’s typical treatment - this one is shown front on rather than in profile, with outstretched wings, stylised breasts and simplified facial features, it is a likely reference to an ancient Persian myth. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086303584583,"sku":"RSA0013","price":8000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0353-EditHR.jpg?v=1769171687"},{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-uomo-natura","title":"Uomo Natura","description":"\u003cp\u003eRamina Saadatkhan’s painted collage Uomo Natura (2025) offers a vision of inseparability between nature and human experience. Drawing on Nietzschean ideas of the “creature and creator” within, here she depicts animals and foliage as expressions of inner states rather than external landscapes. In this work a female figure occupies the central space, a snake curves atop of her and her pink and black hair cascades down the canvas. An open armed sloth-like animal reaches round here whilst reptilians encircle her above and at the side. Titled Uomo Natura, this work is one of several contemplations on the theme of the inseparability of human existence and the natural order. Rather than presenting nature as an external landscape, Uomo Natura reveals it as an inner state – a rhythm, a pulse, and a memory inscribed within the human body and psyche. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086314430791,"sku":"RSA0014","price":16200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0355-EditHR.jpg?v=1769171750"},{"product_id":"ramina-saadatkhan-smell-as-memory","title":"Smell as memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eA small mixed media and acrylic work on canvas, Smell as memory (2025) explores the symbiotic relationship between the natural and human world. On the left, a female figure is shown in profile, whilst in front of her and above,  a snake connects two flowers. The flowers are shown on a scale similar to the figure as she appears to lean into the opening of the bottom one, smelling the flower’s perfume. The title implies the power of smell to recall memory, something essential for human connection and survival. By highlighting the capacity of the natural world to provide this for us, Raadatkhan emphasises the centrality of nature to every aspect of human life. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ramina Saadatkhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53086320197959,"sku":"RSA0015","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/4257\/2871\/files\/DSC0347-EditHR.jpg?v=1769171460"}],"url":"https:\/\/art.gazelliarthouse.com\/collections\/ramina-saadatkhan.oembed","provider":"Gazelli Art House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}