Statement:

Ab-Anbar is proud to present: Sonia Balassanian: Five Decades in the Making, a landmark survey exhibition of the iconic Iranian Armenian American artist’s art at the Ab-Anbar (Pavilion Gallery), Cromwell Place, curated in close dialogue with Dr. Omar Kholeif (EG/SU/UK), author, curator, and broadcaster. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.

The exhibition coincides with Ab-Anbar’s solo presentation of Hostages: A Diary(1980)—exhibited in Great Britain for the first time as part of Frieze Masters in Regent’s Park, London.

The project launches Imagine Otherwise—Volume 1: Sonia Balassanian, a new book series, which focuses on the life and work of Sonia Balassanian, authored by Dr. Omar Kholeif, and published by Sternberg Press, London.