Farideh Lashai is one of the most talented and successful female artist to have emerged from within Iran in recent decades. Her fascination with color fields and use of fluid lyrical gestures has led her towards the abstract depiction of ethereal natural landscapes, often executed with a high awareness of the textural and tonal aspects of oil painting.

Her new body of work is a testament to Lashai’s incredible versatility and sees the artist exploring both figurative representation and motion capture, together with a sense of nostalgia, fear and disgust with the mechanization and shallowness of the presently emerging culture in her homeland and an impulse to detach from the past and to reconcile with the present, the result is a work of superlative originality.

In an atmosphere of fantasy and lyricism, Lashai presents five animations set against the background of paint¬ings recounting the story of a gambling innocent rabbit whose adventures runs from one painting to another, the wonderland of Iran!

Born in Rasht, Iran, in 1944. she has had thirty-three solo shows in Iran, Europe and the USA and has been involved in over sixty collective exhibitions such as Iranian Contemporary, Christie’s King Street, London and exhibitions in Liu-Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Rome Expo, and Art Basel.