Avish Khebrehzadeh's Cosmic Time at Fondazione Volume!

Fondazione Volume! in Rome presents 'Time Past Hath Been Long', a solo exhibition by Iranian-born artist Avish Khebrehzadeh (Tehran, 1969) curated by Claudia Gioia, running until May 27, 2016. The show features drawings and animations exploring a cosmic space-time dimension, drawing from Ptolemy's scientific theory and Saint Augustine's philosophical speculations. Khebrehzadeh reinterprets time through her inner reality, symbolized by the continuous gallop of Pegasus—a bridge between East and West, and between the ancestral and the eternal. A video installation perpetuates the horse's motion with the sound of its gait on earth, while a gong's chime marks the passage of existence. For this occasion, the artist reworks illustrations of constellations from the 10th-century treatise on fixed stars by Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfi. Despite their linear construction, the images represent distant and mysterious visions that Khebrehzadeh invites viewers to follow through codes she has devised.