Zahra Komeylian, Rehearsal for the Platter, 2024, Oil on paper, 15.5 x 20 inch. Courtesy of the artist.
Red Soup
August 30 - September 18, 2024
Zahra Komeylian
Opening Reception: Friday, August 30, 6-8pm
NARS Project Space
Red Soup explores the relational and intrapsychic aspects of unburying the feminine psyche. A slow collection of works on paper (2022-2024) commit to drawing both as scribe of the psychic process and precipitate to depth work. Toiling with personal and archetypal symbols—from dreams, psychoanalytic work and the myth of Inanna’s Descent—Red Soup demarcates the ‘death of a gestalt,’ breaking with patriarchal ego ideals toward a matriarchal consciousness
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Zahra Komeylian (b. 1991) is an Iranian-Canadian artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Komeylian’s practice is grounded in self-reflexive processes, often resulting in conjoint works of performance art, sculpture-installation, text, and drawing, which inform one another in circularity. Komeylian’s research leans into preverbal aspects of subjectivity as they are communicated through personal myth and autotheory, collective symbology (archetype), collective impulses, and embodied knowledge. Komeylian holds an MA in Psychology from Columbia University (2017) and Master of Teaching from the University of Toronto (2023). She is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Fellowship for emerging artists and has presented work both locally and internationally, including at Carleton University Art Gallery (2020), Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), Asian Art Biennale (2018), CICA Museum (2018), Xpace Cultural Centre (2019), New Media Society, Tehran (2018), and Gardiner Museum (2017). Her upcoming solo exhibition will be presented at NARS Foundation, New York.
NARS exhibition programs are made possible in part through the generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and, in part, supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
