Moving - LIVING - BEING SEQUENCE | Hadieh Afshani
Dec 12, 2019 – Jan 19, 2020
Crossing Art is pleased to announce: Moving - Living - Being Sequence, a solo exhibition featuring the series of artworks by Iran-born artist Hadieh Afshani. By utilizing painting as a contemplative vehicle, Afshani’s creative exploration focuses on the notion of a place: what does become your living place, after you are constantly changing spaces? What is moving and what is being? In order to differentiate a place and a space, Afshani borrows the definition outlined by Yi-Fu Tuan in Space and Place (2001) — a place is the center of felt value where biological needs, such as those for food, water, rest, and procreation, are established; a space is more abstract and allows movement, whereas place is paused.
Afshani often depicts intimate spaces such as bedrooms and apartment living rooms. The result thus looks like an intimate visual diary recorded by a woman with a Persian-poetic view of experience. She uses metaphoric and metonymic visual elements that refer to transience, including doorways, corridors, or light coming from one space to another sited within intimate places and interiors. These spacial relations depicted show the feeling of temptation to choose one path over others, taking the risk of going through a chosen path, and then again facing the possibility to change her mind. By doing so, Afshani examines the mindset and the emotional journey of her as an immigrant.
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