Bicharegan: Arvin Golrokh

This project is part of a series particularly dear to the artist, entitled Bicharegan (بیچارگان).

In Persian, “Bicharegan” means “the miserable ones”, yet the term goes beyond mere poverty: it refers to a deeper social condition. These are not simply victims, but individuals excluded from the cycle of power, destined to be forgotten – those who endure history without ever being able to write it: genocides, systematic violence, illusions of supremacy.

The figures Golrokh paints are not just broken bodies; they are witnesses to a world where ruins are not only material but structural. They bear the marks of this condition: corroded faces, fractured bodies, presences that seem to dissolve over time. They are not mere fragments of the past but speak also of the present – a present that continues to generate marginalization and decay.