Statement:

Elmira Mirmiran has been obsessively studying/reflecting texture in her prints and paintings for years. For her, texture is not a representation of things themselves or a part of them, but the trace of them. Here things are a wide range of objective and subjective issues.///

In her prints she is distant and in her paintings very close, but to wha? Whatever is the fruit of life. And what is the fruit of life, if not Traces and foot prints of pleasant or unpleasant events, colors, tastes, odors, and in general whatever life provides us with.

The prints are dense, plenty and spontaneous and at same time intelligent and experimental, and together they project the layout of artists' mind.

The layers sit together and replace each other and continuously change the whole, and we along with artist are viewers of these changes, from a height. who said that it is not possible to observe oneself outside oneself?

In the paintings we are in middle, in middle of the breathtaking density of layers, in the heart of joys, wounds and becomings. Room by room, cell by cell, we remove the transparent and semi-transparent curtains and receive permission to closely taste the passion and pain of constant change in this Hidden Geography.

Farzaneh Mohammadi Khangheshlaqhi