Curators and artists, including Shirin Neshat, remember the artist who called her geometric mirror works “signs of light and life”

the art newspaper_Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, a giant of contemporary Iranian art whose work mixes geometric abstraction with Persian and Iranian art and craft, died on Saturday aged 97 at her home in Tehran.

The Iranian artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat has led tributes to the artist, who was born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1923 and spent decades in New York. In an Instagram post, Neshat wrote: “Monir Farmanfarmaian, the greatest and legendary Iranian woman artist, sadly left this world but her legacy and beautiful art will live on.”