Transparency is a visual concept and an unachievable, and imaginary condition, that is entangled with multiple fields and continuously redefined. In the realms of social and economic thought, transparency represents an idealistic attitude that envisions equitable and equal access for all, aspiring to increase society›s role in oversight and evaluation. Since the early 20th century, numerous artists have drawn upon the aesthetic potential, expressive capabilities, and symbolic connotations of transparency. Architects have employed transparent
structures both as metaphors for the erosion of privacy and the threat of pervasive surveillance, and as allegories for unveiling hidden frameworks and demanding accountability from structures of power. Sculptors, meanwhile, have moved toward dematerializing mass and volume, embracing void and fluidity, or shifted focus from surface and skin to structure and core.
Architecture and sculpture share a common history. both engage with space, invest dimensions with human meaning, and seek to organize and shape space through intervention and transformation. They construct our experience of the world. “Transparency” is an exhibition of works by sculptors and architects from the modern era to the contemporary moment: some take transparency as their point of departure, striving to expand and reinterpret its meaning; others may be examined and reread through the lens of transparency. This exhibition seeks to create a dynamic condition and an active ground where sculpture and architecture can
align their worlds into a shared perspective and horizon.

By positioning transparency as the point of inquiry, the exhibition gathers a wide range of renowned artists alongside emerging voices. It explores various interpretations of the relationship between
structural frameworks and external surfaces, and examines how the use of transparent materials in art can shape and shift our ways of seeing and perceiving. Transparency reveals how the interconnection of spaces and objects can regenerate new atmospheres.
spaces where transparent surfaces transmit or amplify the visual qualities of their surroundings. Clear and revealed structural lines make visible the depths of the body. The “Transparency” exhibition speaks not of ornament and facade, but of structure and essence.
The works on view were created across different times and generations. The artists belong to diverse periods and movements, because
transparency is an active and multi-temporal space that opens a dialogue between generations, manipulating the timeline through acts of making, drawing past and future closer together. Transparency always seeks to reveal a thing. it steps aside in favor of reality, offering the conditions for presence and discovery, inviting us to explore and uncover. It converts the invisible to visible. It
is transparent, self-evident, and unassuming, and carries within it the potential for expansion, motion, and ultimately, time. By shedding matter, it escapes stasis and certainty, converging with the infinite and the ultimate. It blurs the boundary between humans and objects, softening and bending it, and moving toward a more human experience of space.
The glass walls and fluid, borderless architecture of “B Gallery”
provide a shared ground for the coexistence of architectural and sculptural works, offering a fertile space for reexamining the notion of transparency. Each pane of glass, each layer of air fractures and distorts image and space, disrupting familiar linear boundaries and defining a liminal realm. Edges and passages are transformed into voids and gaps, forming a space of habitationand contemplation. It is an invitation to question the very possibility of transparency: how clearly exposed structures and continuous, flowing spaces might generate the “illusion of transparency”, even as they conceal what lies behind them.
Negar Naderipour