Sanam Khatibi called her exhibition "
Green River kills, Than gave a reference to the most prolific serial killer in American history, Gary Ridgway, who killed more than 90 women. Ridgway strangled his victims and then threw their bodies in the forest areas of the Green River. He often returned to this landscape to have sexual intercourse with decaying bodies.
Khatibi is a passionate follower of the growing genre of "true crime", fascinated by the images of the most odious human impulses embodied in everyday circumstances. Her picturesque world can be enveloped in the bygone nature and bathe in the radiant dawn light, but in this beauty lies the foundation of human violence: the merciless, reckless rejection of any social contract.
Khatibi explores his paintings in this way, in an environment that is contrary to the violence of our worst primary motives: our loss of control in the face of the specter of survival.