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Painter Salé Sharifi navigates themes of visibility, history, and memory, establishing a dialogue between past and present in his compositions. His technique evokes the traditions of Qajar and Safavid miniature painting, yet Sharifi relocates this visual language in a contemporary context.
His paintings propose a bifocal approach, shifting from precise depiction to abstraction while establishing a visual flux as if viewed through a translucent layer.
His airbrushed backdrops depict real places, imbued with the haze of fading memory.
As these backgrounds recede, Sharifi disrupts them with loaded, …