Sanam Khatibi
Killing the Angel
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A long line of female authors has led me to rediscover the work of painter Sanam Khatibi. It began with a passage by Jenny Offill, who introduced the notion of the ‘art monster’ in a 2013 piece in The Paris Review. Offill writes: ‘My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn’t even fold his umbrella. Véra licked his stamps for hi (…)
