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Soheila Sokhanvari, The Guests, 2015, egg tempera on vellum, 24.5 x 31 cm. The New Art Gallery Walsall, Permanent Collection.
Exhibition
Preview: Soheila Sokhanvari, Heart of Glass
25 May 2017
Event times
6-8pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Gallery Square
- Walsall, WS2 8LG
- Walsall
- WS2 8LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Walsall
Join us for the opening of our new exhibition in the company of the artist.
6-8pm. Free, All welcome.
About
Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose multidisciplinary work weaves layers of political histories with strange, humorous and mysterious narratives.
Sokhanvari is interested in the use of metaphor to speak about inexpressible events, particularly with reference to Iran.
Magic realism and the use of metaphor in autocratic countries have historically enabled writers and artists to allow the meaning to lie between the lines; hence escaping the limitations of being pinned down. It is both a gesture of protection and an arena for exploration.Images are sourced from family photographs that date to pre-revolutionary Iran. The abstract shapes in her work are a metaphor for loss and exile; a story of absence and presence. Since Soheila was seperated from her immediate family at an early age, she has extracted negative spaces between people and objects in family photographs and claimed these as “self-portraits”. In this way, she asserts her presence in these events.
