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Arsenal Contemporary Art New York is pleased to present Conjuring Flames, an exhibition curated by Lila Nazemian featuring artists Morehshin Allahyari, Pardiss Amerian, Anahita Bagheri, Ala Dehghan, Leila Seyedzadeh and Hadieh Shafie.

Conjuring Flames is inspired by the writings of the twelfth century Iranian philosopher and mystic Sohrevardi as described in his book, Aql-e Sorkh (The Red Intellect). The founder of the school of Illuminationism, where light is the source of all knowledge, Sohrevardi’s complex and extensive teachings combined Islamic, Platonic, Hermetic and Zoroastrian …