Shirin Salehi

With an interdisciplinary work that explores media such as graphics, drawing, sculpture and the moving image, Shirin Salehi investigates the poetic and essayistic dimension of visual language based on ideas such as the hidden image, erased matter and illegible writing. In 'Time without defeat', a project that she developed during her residency at the Spanish Academy in Rome, underlying her concern for time and incision, in conversation with approaches from authors of reference for the artist such as Pascal Quignard and María Zambrano. It investigates the reading of the incised material and a time prior (to production), a time that encompasses poetic spaces that look at the language itself, a time that is neither consumed nor exhausted. Giving great care to the formal resolution of the pieces, she pays special attention to the conceptual qualities of the materials, building a body of works where containment and austerity present the tempo that interests the artist to open conversations with the viewer.