Katayoun Rouhi was born in 1965 in Shiraz. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Paris (Academy Des Beaux-Arts). She also holds a doctorate in aesthetics and sciences of Art from Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. Katayoun Rouhi has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has collaborated with galleries such as Shirin, Haleh Gallery in Germany and AB Gallery in Switzerland. She has also participated in Abu Dhabi Art Fair and Men Art Fair in collaboration with Shirin Gallery.

Calligraphy plays an important role in the works of Katayoun Rouhi; Although her works are not in the category of calligraphy-painting (Naghashi-Khat), but they have forms made with calligraphy. The combination of painting and calligraphy in spiritual works is done in a two-dimensional way. In some of her works, Katayoun Rouhi uses poems that she wrote herself.

The title of the series insinuates to Horace's in art history well known statement "Ut pictura poesis". He meant that poetry resembles painting and unleashed a long battle between philosophers, artists and poets in relation to the question as to which form of art would provide the most aesthetic pleasure. By exchanging the words "poesis" and "pictura" Katayoun shows that both are interrelated and the two going together hand-in-hand. The relativity of things - everything is only a question of the point of view - is one of Rouhi's focal aspects.