Mina Naderi
18 days to the opening
10 Sep - 27 Sep, 2026
Statement:
The Shifting Wall is a visual exploration of time, memory, and transformation.
Engaging with social and historical changes, the series seeks to express the accumulated layers of collective experience through abstraction.
In these works, the wall is not an architectural element but a surface that carries memory, a ground upon which traces of presence, erosion, erasure, and rewriting are recorded.
The works are created through processes of layering, covering, and repeated abrasion of paint.
This method generates a form of visual archaeology: each layer retains fragments of a hidden narrative while simultaneously obscuring others.
Dense textures and scratched surfaces create a tension between what is revealed and what remains concealed, evoking the dynamics of historical memory, constantly reconstructed, omitted, and reinterpreted. ///
The palette, earth tones, ochres, turquoise, and muted greens, establishes an organic connection to geography and cultural landscape.
These colors reference both nature and architectural heritage, while carrying emotional and historical resonance.
Botanical traces and semi-abstract forms function as metaphors for continuity of life within processes of change and erosion.
The Shifting Wall invites viewers into a contemplative encounter with a surface that appears stable yet is perpetually shifting, much like history and memory themselves.
The series seeks to capture a moment within this ongoing movement, suspended between staying and departing, remembering and forgetting.