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Soheila Sokhanvari, Conquest of the Garden, 2016, Egg tempera on calf vellum, 15.5x20.5cm. 6x8 inches
Exhibition
Soheila Sokhanvari
26 May 2017 – 3 Sep 2017
Event times
Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm, Sundays 12noon-4pm.Closed Mondays and Bank Holidays.
Cost of entry
Free admission
Address
- Gallery Square
- Walsall, WS2 8LG
- Walsall
- WS2 8LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Walsall
Soheila Sokhanvari is an Iranian-born artist whose multidisciplinary work weaves layers of political histories with bizarre, humourous and mysterious narratives that are then left to the viewer’s own sensitivity to complete.
About
Sokhanvari is drawn to traumas that linger in the collective consciousness or cause mass amnesia, and yet resist conventional representation.
Sokhanvari is also interested in the use of metaphor to speak about inexpressible events, particularly with reference to Iran. Magic realism and use of metaphor in autocratic countries has historically permitted writers and artists to allow the meaning to lie between the lines and hence escape the limitations of being pinned down. It is both a gesture of protection and arena for exploration.
