Statement:

Shirin Heidarinezhad (Tehran) is invited by Galerie IraLeonis to present her large-scale canvas paintings,created with a very deep black offset ink.

In this groupshow, titled "Making Silence", Shirin's works enter into adialogue with those of photographers represented by thegallery or from its collection.

This exhibition offers a serene and daring encounterbetween painting, drawing, and photography. Itcelebrates silence in all its forms.

Bliss in a moment of beauty,exhilaration in a face-to-face with the image,subtle unease in an encounter...It is in this way that the photographs respond "word forword" to Shirin Heidarinezhad's large canvases.

Whatever the subject of their creation, all speak insilence.