L'Ombre des Oasis

About

Praz-Delavallade is proud to welcome Golnaz Payani for her first solo show. Golnaz Payani, who was born in Teheran and now lives in Paris, embodies this generation of artists who delve into their own life story to find the elements of a new contemporaneity. The delicacy of her works and the emotions they give rise to / are grounded in an attempt to exemplify a dual representation, one of paradise and lost happiness. She expresses the ambiguity of possibilities, where nostalgia meets memory and disappearance meets appearance. The very elegance of her art undeniably betrays her origins, this tropism that means she is drawn towards an idealised Persian garden. However, beauty is not alone in being invited into her art. Golnaz Payani strives to find the tiniest of details which will provide her with the feeling that she is returning to her roots, like a quixotic quest for a magical oasis, one that provides shade and succour and which is the stuff of which Persian tales are made. And yet, behind the poetry and the sheer delight of seeing, reality raises its head, a harsh, cruel and violent reality that does not necessarily reveal all at first glance.

Golnaz Payani was born in Tehran in 1986. After studying Painting at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of Tehran, she continued her studies at the Clermont-Ferrand School of Art, where she obtained a National Diploma in Fine Arts (BFA) in 2010 and a National Diploma in Plastic Expression (MFA) in 2013. Payani has exhibited extensively in France and abroad: DomaineM, Cérilly, FR, 2019, 2018 ; Mastre, Venise, IT, 2018 ; Paratissima, Turin, IT, 2017 ; 61ème salon de Montrouge, FR, 2016 La Trap, Pré-Saint-Gervais, FR, 2015.