Amirhossein Bayani
The Season of Ruin's Remembrance
2 FEB – 6 APR 2025
Canoes floating past abandoned settlements, archways half submerged within the sea, miniature figures lost within dense forests. Iranian artist Amirhossein Bayani’s vividly coloured and highly detailed paintings explore themes around life, immigration, and freedom with a particular focus on the struggles of women. Working in the tradition of landscape painting, his latest series The Season of Ruin’s Remembrance employs natural elements both as a way of expressing complex emotional states and envisioning a more harmonious future.
Each of the paintings in the series The Season of Ruin’s Remembrance was inspired by a real-life story of an Iranian woman who fought for freedom and lost her life. Rather than illustrating their heroic and tragic tales, however, Bayani envisions these figures in other-worldly forest settings: they appear memorialised as statues or else as tiny, translucent spirits, glimpsed between the trees, standing on a rock or on the edge of a lake.
About Zawyeh Gallery
Founded in 2013 by Ziad Anani, Zawyeh Gallery is an independent Visual Art Gallery located in Ramallah, Palestine. In 2020, the gallery expanded its reach by establishing a second location at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, UAE. Dedicated to promoting Palestinian and Middle Eastern artists, both emerging and established, Zawyeh Gallery pursues its mission through a diverse range of thematic exhibitions. Over the years, the gallery has curated numerous solo and collective shows, showcasing artworks spanning various mediums such as painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography.
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