Always the Same Tree

Curator: O Gallery presents "Always the Same Tree", a collection of drawings by Afsaneh Masaeli (b. 1980 Isfahan). Inspired by her surrounding environment, the collection on display is a representation of the trees that have come to find form from Masaeli's thoughts and dreams. Tree, as a phenomenon that has gathered contradictory features and attributes, has long been a concern of the artist; a phenomenon that both grows and decays, flourishes and fades, its roots erode the subsoil, and its darkness accompanies the clouds. The grove, on the other hand, evoking the common place of human life, brings to mind other aspects of contradiction: being alone or with another; detached or faithfully united; harmony or chaos ... In this collection, the tree or the grove as the theme provides us with the opportunity to deeply ponder into the transformative nature of life.