Paintings

During the process of creating these paintings, the artist was inspired by Eastern folklore supernatural beliefs and tales. She started to work on a ten-meter-long painting which led her to a process of creation by repetition. This repetition is depicted in the form of loop; a circle of real and fantasy worlds. Through these repetitions, the border of the two universes starts to get blurred which creates a state of phenomenological uncertainty. The second part of the project contains a set of portraits. This is the artist’s attempt to enter this new universe and try to take out all of these creatures to our side of reality, to reveal their identity, as if they exist and have names.

“W Y H” is the outcome of a three-year course of painting (2019–2022) through which I was trying to represent my observations of the world I live in. Self-isolated in a village in Iran, I started to make use of any accessible material to realize my thoughts about the events taking place out there in the world. After a certain period, I could vividly see a repetition in my paintings. I kept seemingly repeating the same object, but with each attempt, another layer of reality was unveiled. To me, repeating was not the reoccurrence of the same old thing but rather a way of refusing to let it stay as it was. This collection consists of more than 100 paintings, all mixed-media on paper and approximately 10x15cm.