Exhibition Statement: She looks at these pictures, all these women look familiar to her, they all used to play in the same garden, they used to handpick apples and grapes from its trees, in that pasted time they were more relaxed, more intimate and more passionate. Not much can be found in new photos; even colors of that time, those yellows and browns have not spread over to our time.
The painter chooses a subject that he/she is preoccupied with. It is as if you only can talk about things you are already preoccupied with. It is important what you are preoccupied with or how you are picturing it.
She looks at these pictures, it doesn't make a difference whether she sees women or men, she thinks to herself if there is any difference it is only subconscious. She thinks to herself, these are realities she manipulates; she adds surrealistic elements to them for example. And then in her subconscious, these images signify a thing or two. Isn't this life?
You don't need magic to be able to see a tree as red and paint it as red. You are the painter and the final decision is yours. If there is magic, the painting is the magic itself; you can interpret light to colors and spots, and it is you who will decide whether someone will be imprisoned in your frame; this is a sort of freedom after all. He looks at these pictures, he takes himself responsible, he is preoccupied about where he stands, even about what responsibility is. And this is nothing to do with painting or being a painter.
This is something that relates to life; to being alive, to how one lives his life, where he stands. Are you standing in the right place? All sorts of things come to vision in perspective, but which one comes to your eye? And how are you seeing them? And how you want others to see them?
Soorena Petgar, October 2019
Curator: Soorena Petgar
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