Arghavan Khosravi's solo exhibition "What Remains" opens today at Uffner & Liu in New York, presenting a new body of sculptural paintings that fuse Persian architecture with Christian altarpieces. The works explore women's fight for equality under censorship and religious dogma in Iran, featuring figures restricted by domestic objects, hinged shutters, and suspended cords, with fragments of limbs or faces visible. Key pieces include "Suspended" (2026), "Bearing" (2026), and "The Whisper" (2026), running through July 2.
The exhibition matters because it addresses urgent conversations about resistance and control in a region continually in crisis, particularly amid the U.S. war against Iran. Khosravi, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, channels her homesickness and longing for a changed Iran into works that acknowledge ongoing strife while asserting that beauty and self-empowerment can still trigger new paradigms. The show is not a direct response to current conflict but a timely meditation on living under persistent government overreach and destruction.