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Hamed Sahihi

Group Exhibition

Opening on 6th September 2024
On view until 27th September 2024

Artists:
Morteza Ahmadvand, Shaqayeq Ahmadian, Morteza Ardalan, Fatemeh Bahman Siyahmard, Samira Eskandarfar, Shapri Behzadi, Parisa Taghipour, Esmaeel Davari, Amirhossein Shahnazi, Hamed Sahihi, Nastaran Safaie, Bahar Samadi, Shahryar Gharaei, Payam Mofidi, Koosha Moossavi, Parsoua Mahtash, Allahyar Najafi, Raheleh Nooravar.
With special thanks to Assar Gallery Tehran and Emrooz Gallery Esfahan.

Black is the absence of visual perception. It does not reflect, emit, transmit or receive. Black does not exist in nature.
White is the achromatic perception of maximum brightness and luminosity. White does not exist in nature either.
It is perhaps an impossible and wishful undertaking to have the contemporary art of our land judged and/or appreciated outside the preconceived notion and prevalent world public opinions. Does the world really need contrasts to create a distinguishable reality?
As a Nation we are neither black nor white. We like to be viewed away from the a priori clichés of right and wrong, and the prefixed notions of good and bad. In other words, we like to be seen as we are, in our diversity and complexity.
Nazila Noebashari

Opening on 21st June 2024
On view until 12th July 2024

Although each of us occupy a very small space in this universe, the space that we inhabit along the stretch of time is vast. Each of us is a unique observer in this linear journey and almost no one else has witnessed the expanse of this vast existence with all of its secrets. Each moment that passes is like waking up from a dream we just saw. A dream only as vivid as we remember them which then starts fading away with each passing moment and gets lost somewhere in our brain. “Parallel Secret” is maybe an attempt at describing a dream, in hopes of stopping it from slipping from memory.
Hamed Sahihi
June 2024

Group Exhibition

Artworks:

Homage to Twenty years of collaboration of

Samira Eskandarfar and Hamed Sahihi

Opening on 10th November 2023
On view until 24th November 2023

Friends and partners Samira Eskandarfar and Hamed Sahihi held their first duo show at Laleh Gallery twenty years ago. This exhibition is a celebration of twenty years of their collaboration, showcasing the exhibitions they held together and a selection of works that connect the timeline of those exhibitions.
Samira Eskandarfar is always capable of shocking our senses. Her bold lines and fantastical approach to portrait painting, in particular, are engaging; long after the exhibition is ended, these portraits are remembered. The theatrical aspect of her work and her courage in showing the ugly side of stories next to the endearing aspects of the same stories- two sides of the same coin- makes her the extraordinary image maker she is.
Silent spaces are the setting of the dramas of Hamed Sahihi. Irrational perspective is another element of his works. In his latest series of paintings, human presence is concealed, and the center stage is given to vigorous energy that fills the pictorial space. His large-scale paintings express the sensation of vastness and solitude like the Dervishes chant their prayers. With open eyes, he remains a dreamer.

Group Exhibition

Opening on 21st July 2023
On view until 11th August 2023

Artists:
Mehdi Farhadian, Nasim Davari, Fatemeh Bahman Siyahmard, Koosha Moossavi, Maryam Farshad, Shaqayeq Ahmadian, Hamed Sahihi, Sara Tavana, Shahryar Gharaei, Maryam Farzadian, Marjian Hoshiar, Sanahin Babajanians, Sara Assareh, Shahrzad Argahinejad, Siamak Nasr, Leila Nouraei

The exhibition aims to bring together a divergent set of works. Representing, but also upsetting, the relationship between the artists and their connection to reality. Spheres that contain paradoxes and manage to juxtapose the ideal with the unattainable.
Breaking away from the harsh realities is a Persian Tradition manifested in our literature and arts, even in our timeless tradition of humor. The tough realism of every day is compensated by stepping into another dimension, cherishing illusions that replace the real world.
Here are exaggerated floating spaces – a placeless place- yet in connection with the spaces that remain outside them. Within these spaces, we are alive, free of borders and restrictions, away from the mundane, and separated from the gloom that engulfs our land. Able to float in an archipelago of plurality, as we are supposed to.
Nazila Noebashari

End of Year Group Exhibition

Opening on 24th February 2023
On View until 17th March 2023

Artists:
Farhad Ahrarnia, Shaqayeq Ahmadian, Sara Assareh, Samira Eskandarfar, Mohamad Eskandari, Ebrahim Eskandari, Reihaneh Afzalian, Sanahin Babajanians, Fatemeh Bahman Siyahmard, Dadbeh Bassir,Parisa Taghipour, Sara Tavana, Manijeh Hejazi, Parisa Hejazi, Sara Hosseini, Zari Hosseini, Hamid Hemayatian, Anahita Darabbeigi, Nasim Davari, Raoof Dashti, Navid Salajegheh, Sara Soleimani Qashqayi,Amir Hossein Shahnazi, Hamed Sahihi, Nastaran Safaei, Bahar Samadi, Kiarang Alaei, Maryam Farzadian, Mayram Farshad, Mehdi Farhadian, Naghmeh Ghassemlou, Amirali Ghasemi, Narges Mohamadian, Shirin Mellatgohar,Koosha Moossavi, Parsoua Mahtash, Elmira Mirmiran, Allahyar Najafi, Siamak Nasr, Nazgol Nayeri, Leila Nouraei, Mohammad Hamzeh, Marjan Hoshiar.

Don’t be sad, my land!
I have planted flower seeds in your wounds
One day there will be flower everywhere…
Alireza Roushan

For Women, For Life, For Freedom

It is through artistic creations that Iran reveals her true self and this many believe constitutes her most precious legacy. The Persian legacy has endured many turbulences of history. No historical shock has been able to break the chain. There were interruptions, yet they always permitted even provoked a resumption of creativity; ideas, styles, techniques forcefully imposed, were accepted and integrated in to our existing practice. The Iranian spirit is a tenacious one, we can endure extremes and at the same time our thousands of years of history teaches us to remain optimistic and persistent.
Throughout the last forty-four years of our perpetual revolution, the visual artists have had to carve their independence; in the first years the universities were purged through the so-called Cultural Revolution and artists and professors had to look for other jobs or start private classes. Many left the country. Although it was a difficult struggle, but they succeeded in achieving autonomy from a Regime that controls the distribution of our national wealth and would never support progressive arts. This resilient attitude which is now adapted by the younger generations, was very important in the recent difficult times where despite pressures and the fears, the visual arts has stood its ground and has been an outspoken and integral part of the structure of our brave civil society.
Our artists continue to consciously challenge the status quo and the peripheral environment as well as themselves. They insist on their sense of independence and persist in their capabilities like all other modern human beings. They help preserve a Persian legacy, enriching our lives and inspiring us as a nation to become better than we are. It is this perseverance and humility that is the source of the merit of Iranian arts and its limitless potential.
We are constantly reminded of our legendry bird: The Phoenix who is believed to possess the knowledge of all times, from ashes she rises to create wonderment, she plunges in to flames to be purified , to rise again, every time stronger, every time mightier.
Nazila Noebashari

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