This exhibition is a study of the limits of what can be revealed and what cannot, about edges that artists frequently chose to stand on. Shedding light on what is ordinary such as childhood memories and what ought to be ordinary such as attending a simple game of football. The Complexities of seeing and not seeing, or rather not wanting to see is part of modern life and so are issues and memories that linger on, and carve their own path on psyche of artists. Art forces us to look at the outer boundaries of peripheral, despite all the limitations of the visual field, and eventually to enjoy what is outside our direct line of sight. 

In Shoora Majedian’s work, the recollection and accessing through remembering a moment brings about a formal openness and incompleteness that can simultaneously represent the conflict of her lived experience. The ink runs freely, and it is hard to stop it, and when it dries, it builds the stone-like and rigid texture on the paper. Similarly, social trauma causes shock that spills over generations, and it is hard to contain its aftermath.

Sara Soleimani Ghashghai’s works are Immersed in color and zest, and childhood adventures and playfulness as if in a subjective roller-coaster. Growing up in the shadow of tribal tents and away from city facades, the nomadic lifestyle that she witnessed as a child hardly exists anymore. The tribes do not migrate in the way that they used to. 

In Maryam Amir Vaghefi’s practice the autobiographical nature of work is gender based. In trying to reconcile her situation, while she lives abroad, she has determined that sports, specifically sports-related imagery, are legitimate vehicles for exploring notions of ethnicity, gender, and politics.

Nazgol Nayeri escapes to a suspended world, where objects and human forms are removed, and an intuitive and visual space has taken shape. A new vista of the inner life. Where for artist the ultimate charm is in the more abstract form, as direct and obvious as it may be.

Noushin Vedaei challenges the conflict of good and evil, an eternal duality. As well as the human situation that seems to be stranded in middle of barren lands, in pursuit of countless mirages. One should halt, and deliberate, and to see with open eyes, before the Tree, that has grown in the wastelands and has whispered existence and fortitude, stops breathing.