Gazelli Art House
Exhibition & Event: Finissage Saturday 30th November 3 - 5pm
AWITA Member Mila Askarova invites you to her finissage event this Saturday with two exhibitions. Please RSVP at info@gazelliarthouse.com.
The exhibition Cipher presents two female painters with roots in the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, Pouran Jinchi (b.1959, Iran) and Ruba Salameh (b.1985, Palestine). The artists come from different generations, but share an innovative and emotionally affecting use of abstraction and pattern. Their paintings are deeply connected to the traditions of Islamic calligraphy and geometric design, while also in dialogue with multiple moments and styles from across the Western modernist and post-modernist canon.
Ruba Salameh, Carmel, 2021
Pouran Jinchi Untitled #1 (The Blind Owl Series), 2013
Aida Mahmudova. Untitled, 2022
The second exhibition is titled The Window by Aida Mahmudova. The exhibition invites viewers into a deeply introspective journey, exploring solitude, nostalgia, and the yearning for inner and outer freedom. Through vivid imagery Mahmudova reflects on the tension between confinement and release, evoking the fragility of identity and the powerful forces that shape one’s inner world.
She was insired by these lines from Forugh Farrokhzad’s celebrated poem The Window:
“One window for seeing
One window for hearing
One window, which like the shaft of a well
Extends in its depths to the heart of the earth
And opens towards the expanse of this blue and recurring kindness.”
– Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967)