While in the past decade, Leila Ghandchi has been painting natural landscapes, her gaze has now shifted to the details that previously appeared in various forms within the corners and crevices of those works. These details evoke fleeting, momentary images, mental spirals, fantasies, or the incursion of the external world upon her delicate mind—and ours. Where she once portrayed these inner worlds through landscapes, making the inevitable impact of the relentless external world visible and tangible, she now seems intent on revealing the shells, barriers, and layers that, like sheets of translucent calc paper that recur in her work, are thin, fragile, and transparent. Now, following past explorations, she seeks to uncover the nature of the fragility and vulnerability of these barriers and shells—meant to protect living beings—and metaphorically, us—from the arduous and onerous demands of human experience. Leila Ghandchi now more than ever before shows us that our guardians against the outside world are as delicate, transparent, and fragile as these layers of calc paper.

 Hafez Rouhani