The handmakes of Ilnaz Rahbar are adapted from traditional paintings of Iran. Through collage of colorful fabrics, she has reconstructed doorways, domes, fences, ponds and trees in the familiar atmosphere of Iranian paintings. This reconstruction calls attention to a kind of minimalism and an emphasis on fundamental shapes and geometry, as the colors have been selected most carefully. These pieces depict places emptied of human, and trees bereft of place. That is how a new narrative is shaped out of fabric rather than paint, though casting light on paintings, as the pieces are not sewn but glued together, forming an agreeable, rather intermediating novel experience.

Behnam Kamrani