Shaqayeq Ahmadian captures life through a playful, exhilarating lens. Guided by her own sense of perception, she paints with immediacy and truthfulness. The immersive effect puts viewers squarely in the artist’s world. Her different layers of experience are eccentric and emerge through choices of colors and form. She engages with past and present and offers a possible future. There is a fundamental interplay between objects and paintings, two and three dimensions, where her animated figures appear to have stepped out of canvases. Artist embraces life, ignores her own fears and surpasses limitations and difficulties of life in her own homeland.

For her third solo exhibition Artist writes:

At the beginning the images were black and white. Later I found out that by staring in to darkness light becomes visible. Even for darkness to exist there must be light. Even the Tree of Dragon needs light to grow. After that water splashed on to naked bodies and birds settled on the shoulders of girls. In one corner a child cried in the other one a girl played her instrument. A house that I painted black A palace that I painted green. The Hot red of the days that we witnessed. The attractive Red of East. Dare and immigrate. Dare and stay.

For my Sister for all my Sisters, I color my images with colors of rainbow, and I whisper Light should be kept concealed in the corners of the house. *

* Ahmad Shamlou, Dead End Alleys