Statement:

A rarely seen body of work from the last 12 years by Farhad Ahrarnia, carefully selected for his first solo show in his homeland, is a testimony to artist's poetic and subtle engagement with his highly praised and loved birth place.///

Shiraz for her cultural significance, dynamism and complexity has continuously provided a rich context for the artist. Where the legacy, strength, profundity and beauty of classical literature, architecture, arts and crafts comfortably merge and co-exist with the energy, aspirations and challenges of the modern and the contemporary. 

For Farhad Ahrarnia this quest for negating and negotiating a comfortable balance between the spirit of the here and now and the legacy of a rich culture inherited and continuously sustained by various artists and artisans.

The artist persistently attempts to find new visual recipes and metaphors for unfolding of alternative expressions of modernites, which are quintessentially embedded and are strongly rooted in the profoundness of Iranian classical arts, crafts and philosophies.