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Afshin Pirhashemi

Can you keep a secret?

20 Janauary | 10 March 2021

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Can You Keep a Secret?, a solo exhibition featuring a new body of work by Afshin Pirhashemi.

About the exhibition

In Afshin Pirhashemi’s work, black is a symbol for the power that cloaks femininity, truth, militancy and a worldview in which the stakes are high. His monochrome register never loses its dimensionality, although primary colours have begun to seep in, as well as the sheen of poetic fragments.

The iconic women that populate Pirhashemi’s paintings like alter-egos – a recurring …