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The Border Project Space is pleased to present An Absent View, a solo exhibition by the Iranian visual artist Leila Seyedzadeh. The show, curated by Jamie Martinez, will be on view from November 20 to December 12, 2020./// Seyedzadeh’s works—influenced by Persian miniature and landscapes—contemplates the “dwelling in-between two worlds,” the chasm between presence and absence. Her pieces are saturated with dichotomies: physical and non-physicality, inner and outer space, weight and weightlessness, transparency and opacity, and altitude and gravity. As an expatriate living on the east coast of the United States, she has struggled to connect to Western landscapes. In turn, she has assembled an installation that is reminiscent of Tehran: “I have been carrying my memories of the mountains of Tehran and I’m trying to recreate them.” To pay homage to her native land, she uses materials imbued with cultural and symbolic profundity: large hand-dyed fabrics and Persian hand woven jajims, handmade textiles, woven from cotton or wool (a fabric that has contributed to Iran’s rich, artistic history). She, tactfully, constructs peaks and contours with ropes and folds, a contrast to the rigid, stable structure of the jajims that lay beneath the vibrant and playful collage of cloth. Seyedzadeh integrates her narrative—extractions from her subconscious—into her installation, which manifests into an expansive, dynamic reflection of an absent view.

آسمان آبی آسمانِ همه جا آبی نیست کوه هست، درخت هست کوه نیست، درخت هست آسمان اینجا اما بلندتر است سایه ها با من اند خطوط اطراف اشیاء/// تصویرِ تصور من از اجسام حبه قندی حل شده در اقیانوس گره خورده به یک تکه آشنا در چمدان دستم را روی تکه چوبی از خاطرات گذاشته ام از عرش به فرش از فرش به عرش به کدامین سمت در این اقیانوس بی انتها؟ "من اینجا بس دلم تنگ است و هرسازی که می بینم بدآهنگ است بیا ره توشه برداریم قدم در راه بی برگشت بگذاریم ببینیم آسمان هرکجا آیا همین رنگ است؟"* لیلا سیدزاده *مهدی اخوان ثالث