Arghavan Khosravi's 'What Remains' Opens at Uffner & Liu

Arghavan Khosravi's solo exhibition 'What Remains' opened today at Uffner & Liu in New York, running through July 2. The Iranian artist's new body of work fuses Persian architecture with Christian altarpieces to address women's fight for equality amid censorship and religious dogma in Iran. Figures are often restricted and tethered to domestic objects, physically separated from one another. Works incorporate hinged shutters, suspended cords, and tiny visages, leaving only fragments of limbs or faces visible. The exhibition was in progress before the U.S. war against Iran, so it is not a direct response but a timely acknowledgment of living in a region in crisis. Khosravi lives and works in Stamford, Connecticut, and her homesickness for Iran is evident. Large-scale works like 'Bearing' depict a seated woman buttressing a Persian building with black liquid seeping from its foundation.