We invite you to discover Curator’s Cut, a curated selection bridging the primary and secondary markets. Each week, we turn the spotlight on a single artist, offering an exclusive glimpse into their latest studio practice alongside a notable work drawn from a distinguished private collection.
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Niloofar Rahnama
BiographyNiloofar Rahnama was born in 1975. Her works are influenced, above all, by her personal experiences. She is often intrigued and
attracted by the challenges of life and the ensuing emotions that we may all feel, but never care or dare to reveal.
"I am inspired by what I see and feel in my day-to-day life. My works are parts of the outer world and a reaction to the ever changing environment surrounding me: war and its aftermath, death and loss of the beloveds, motherhood, and other miscellaneous novel circumstances that cause change in my feelings. Through painting, I create a correlation between my self-awareness and the surrounding world. I turn my ideas into sketches many times over. They get covered under layers and layers of paint over and over again. They appear and disappear regularly; the forms and lines are revealed and then omitted. They constantly change. It is the audience, at last, who keeps on its journey in my paintings using its own perspective." Niloofar describes her work process as being very simple. Just like her visual style, it regularly undergoes changes and adaptations in line with her developing process as an artist.
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Shadows
Niloofar Rahnama, Shadows, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 180 x 160 cmmost of the works in this collection, illustrates Rahnama's compound and complex engagement with the shadows.
"Shadows" are two-folded: they exist and simultaneously they do not. Shadows are micro transitory entities that constantly fade and reappear. A shadow implies the absence of light. All shadows attest to the lack of definite boundaries that leads to a form of constant fluidity and mobility. Likewise, psychoanalysis defines shadows quite similarly by arguing that a shadow refers to an absent, the unconscious, an inner space within the subject that is unknown to him/her, from which he/she is already alienated uncanny, dark, and unfamiliar part of one's existence. A Shadow, accordingly, is intrinsic to the subject. Whatever a subject tries to reject. Desires and demands are being moved to the subconsciousness in order to be forgotten.
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