B. 1969 Tehran, Iran

Hadieh Shafie (B. 1969) is an Iranian-born and United States of America (USA)-based visual artist whose work collapses the space between drawing, painting, and sculpture, and whose practice is at once process-oriented and overwhelming in its intricacy. Shafie’s work is in many public collections, such as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Victoria and Albert Museum; Bank of America, Corporation Collection; Art in Embassies, Public Collection in Dubai, UAE. Her series of text-based colour pencil drawing works in this exhibition explore the interplay of forms and patterns and the use of semantics as a way to interrogate visual meaning in both personal and political domains. Her approach to her works are evocative of sound waves, ripples, and dances, speaking to the exhibition’s vision of a vision of transience as trance.