* Twist and Turn
Mahsa Hashemi, August 1-17, 2025
* Installation Views
* Individual Works
* Statement
VATTTAN Projects, in collaboration with Bavan Gallery, is presenting the fourth annual "Common Areas" event.
The subjects in my work often come from my daily surroundings, sometimes emotionally charged and vivid moments, sometimes simple situations that evoke emotion. These moments remain with me, sometimes as photographs, sometimes just in my visual memory. Returning to them, and seeing their images again, triggers something in me. That’s usually when the urge to draw appears. In that process, different kinds of visual experience, interaction with materials, and personal memory come together to help me shape an image that carries meaning, emotional weight, and a sense of visual belonging.
capturing the moments that resonate with me, human encounter, bodies, nature,
The subjects in my work often come from my daily surroundings, sometimes emotionally charged and vivid moments, sometimes simple situations that evoke emotion. These moments remain with me, sometimes as photographs, sometimes just in my visual memory. Returning to them, and seeing their images again, triggers something in me. That’s usually when the urge to draw appears. In that process, different kinds of visual experience, interaction with materials, and personal memory come together to help me shape an image that carries meaning, emotional weight, and a sense of visual belonging.
capturing the moments that resonate with me, human encounter, bodies, nature,
forms, and the spaces I inhabit often become the starting points of
a painting.
Observation has always been a fundamental part of my practice. It constantly moves between reconstructing what’s visible and drifting toward something more internal and imagined.
This back-and-forth rhythm leads me to the image I’m after. These images aren’t just about representation, they’re a way for me to build a world through which I can translate my experience.
My most recent paintings reflect the visual concerns I’m currently engaged with, forms that sit somewhere between control and release, between observation and re-creation. They hold a sense of spontaneity, unpredictability, and emotional intensity that, in their
Observation has always been a fundamental part of my practice. It constantly moves between reconstructing what’s visible and drifting toward something more internal and imagined.
This back-and-forth rhythm leads me to the image I’m after. These images aren’t just about representation, they’re a way for me to build a world through which I can translate my experience.
My most recent paintings reflect the visual concerns I’m currently engaged with, forms that sit somewhere between control and release, between observation and re-creation. They hold a sense of spontaneity, unpredictability, and emotional intensity that, in their
* Past Exhibitions
IT´S NOT PAINTERLY, TO LET THE SUN DROWN IN THE SEA
Neda SaeediMay 9-26, 2025
Ahoo Hamedi
April 18 - May 5, 2025
April 18 - May 5, 2025
Group Exhibition
April 19 - 30, 2025
April 19 - 30, 2025