Galerie Christophe Gaillard is delighted to present for the first time the work of Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Iranian artists currently in residence at the Pinault Collection Lens. These two exhibitions are the result of their first months of research and creation at the Pinault Collection Lens, and offer an intimate and poignant look at experiences of transformation, isolation and memory.
In the front space, Soufia Erfanian presents Lies That Bled, a series of canvases which revisit the fragmented memories of a childhood marked by loss and uprooting. Between the sudden disappearance of a father and the forced estrangement of a mother under patriarchal laws, her work focuses on the way the past is reconstructed through memory, oscillating between truth, imagination and oblivion. Rather than freezing an answer, her paintings open up a space where trauma becomes an ever-evolving process, an intimate path towards reconciliation and healing.
