Morvarid K: This Too Shall Pass
First solo show by Iranian artist Morvarid K at the gallery, this exhibition, entitled "This Too Shall Pass", is a continuation of the one held at the Mus茅e de l'脡glise Saint-Vincent in M茅rignac (France), and follows on from the Biblioth猫que nationale de France's acquisition of three works from the same series. It also allows us to extend the scope of the series to the scale of our space, as it was partially exhibited in Amsterdam last September during a highly acclaimed participation at the Unbound by Unseen fair.
Born in Teheran in 1982, Morvarid K's attachment to Iranian identity is the foundation of her relationship with the world and her artistic sensibility. Through the manipulation of photographic material, her work questions our relationship to the world, transformative memory and the in-between. The photographic medium is the starting point, anchoring his work in reality, while superimposition and transformation techniques provide the additional expressions that photography cannot capture.
Overwhelmed by the images of the fires in Australia in 2019 and 2020, Morvarid K feels the compelling need to go there and see the static, silent, empty landscapes, to witness the overwhelming absence of life, to confront what remains despite the devastation. Begun in Australia in 2020 and continued in France in 2021 and 2022, the "This too shall pass" series questions the complexity of human perception, the adjustment mechanism that enables us to tame the brutal, the destructive, to make Thanatos bearable.
The project is divided into three phases: the persistence of the past, recounting the initial difficulty of accepting the destruction caused by the fire; the trace of the present, the moment of awareness and the desire to be as close as possible to the problem in order to understand it better; and, finally, the weaving of the future, the moment when the subject slips into the background and our attention turns to other things, even though the mega-fires persist.
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First solo show by Iranian artist Morvarid K at the gallery, this exhibition, entitled "This Too Shall Pass", is a continuation of the one held at the Mus茅e de l'脡glise Saint-Vincent in M茅rignac (France), and follows on from the Biblioth猫que nationale de France's acquisition of three works from the same series. It also allows us to extend the scope of the series to the scale of our space, as it was partially exhibited in Amsterdam last September during a highly acclaimed participation at the Unbound by Unseen fair.
Born in Teheran in 1982, Morvarid K's attachment to Iranian identity is the foundation of her relationship with the world and her artistic sensibility. Through the manipulation of photographic material, her work questions our relationship to the world, transformative memory and the in-between. The photographic medium is the starting point, anchoring his work in reality, while superimposition and transformation techniques provide the additional expressions that photography cannot capture.
Overwhelmed by the images of the fires in Australia in 2019 and 2020, Morvarid K feels the compelling need to go there and see the static, silent, empty landscapes, to witness the overwhelming absence of life, to confront what remains despite the devastation. Begun in Australia in 2020 and continued in France in 2021 and 2022, the "This too shall pass" series questions the complexity of human perception, the adjustment mechanism that enables us to tame the brutal, the destructive, to make Thanatos bearable.
The project is divided into three phases: the persistence of the past, recounting the initial difficulty of accepting the destruction caused by the fire; the trace of the present, the moment of awareness and the desire to be as close as possible to the problem in order to understand it better; and, finally, the weaving of the future, the moment when the subject slips into the background and our attention turns to other things, even though the mega-fires persist.
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