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Laila Tara H, 'am I?', Install
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Laila Tara H, 'am I?'
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Laila Tara H, 'am I?'
Exhibition
am I?
8 Apr 2021 – 29 Apr 2021
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- 56 Conduit Street
- London
England - W1S 2YZ
- United Kingdom
Running from 8 - 29 April am I? is a meditation on subjectivity seen in and through painting. Rooted in the methodology of Persian miniatures, Laila forgoes the genre’s traditional compositional techniques, opting instead to use emptiness as a way to interrogate selfhood.
About
On a 2017 trip to the Iranian island of Hormoz, Laila collected soil from which she derived ochre, red and purple oxides and chalk pigments. From her garden in London twenty-year-old brick is crushed to form a deep red powder. Together with lapis, malachite, vermillion and cinnabar these are some of the hues that inform her work. This traditional preparation of colours connects the artist to her surroundings as well as to the deep histories embedded within the mineral and organic materials she employs.
For her first ever solo exhibition, London-born Iranian artist Laila Tara H presents a group of new paintings made from naturally derived pigments and watercolour on salvaged Indian hemp paper. In a conscious attempt to separate geopolitics from the earth she turns to ancient and folk practices that allow non- human matter to speak, demonstrating that these are extraordinary actors in and of themselves.
