Women is a 2015 social poster by Iranian poster designer Behnam Raeesian. The work uses the outline of a female head and shoulders formed from barbed wire, reducing the image to a stark black-and-white symbol of restriction, pressure, and gender-based confinement.
Created as part of Raeesian’s early body of independent social poster works, the poster reflects his minimalist approach to political and social subjects: replacing detail with a single charged visual metaphor. The work was included in the iroon.com gallery “Blown Away: Behnam Raeesian’s Posters,” published on March 28, 2015.
Women, poster by Behnam Raeesian, 2015.