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Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm presents Ayan Farah’s first solo show in Sweden. Revealing it-self only to those who truly seek it, a Peradam is an ephemeral object in Rene Daumal’s adventure novel ‘Mount Analogue’.

Farah’s works are an alchemy of substances applied on canvas, linen, hemp, and silk. She uses materials such as forest ash, clay, cloud-seeded water, indigo, mud, rust, and marigold to create dyes that are sometimes subdued in sunlight and fixed in vinegar.

The construction of her fabrics is dictated by available material and often includes off-cuts from earlier works, accumulatively …