About the work
Painting is a means by which I understand my body and home in the state of post-migratory isolation. In this particular piece, I tried to mirror the gruelling length of the displacement process and the search for a stable home through the long format of the canvas itself.
This work, which situates the viewer within the eyelid of the subject, tries to bring the inside out and the outside in.” Just like the day after an earthquake or war “, when the walls collapse and “inside” and “outside” no longer have any distinction from one another. In this painting, different methods of mark-making and textures are used to create an abstract space and at the same time a figurative one to create a sense of the condition of purgatory.
About the artist
SARA RAHMANIAN (b.1993 Tehran,Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by everyday objects and the absurdity of contemporary life. She uses painting to explore the imaginative gaps between reality and perception. She paints on coffee filters or canvas . She draws from first-person perspectives, defamiliarizing the mundane to invite a heightened sense of contemplation about our surroundings. Painting is her go-to medium for playing hide and seek with objects, but more often than not, the process surprises her!
Sara Rahmanian
