Rosa Damascena harvest, Qamsar, Iran.
Golestān Revisited
Amitis Motevalli is an artist born in Iran who explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict, and war.
Artist BioRoses by Other Names, a database as part of the Golestān Revisited series, is a multimedia, internationally-accessible online database created to research, reclaim, and rename roses transplanted to Europe during the Crusades from the South and West Asian and North African region (known as SWANA), to symbolize and commemorate women, girls, and femmes killed—often while captive in the wars against “terror” and/or by reactive Islamist occupations.
The database Roses by Other Names launched on February 14, 2025. Access the database here.