BOMB Magazne

Facing Duality: Arghavan Khosravi Interviewed by Will Fenstermaker

The painter talks about her work across cultures.

I first saw Arghavan Khosravi’s lush and intimate paintings earlier this year at Four, a concise exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery that featured four young artists curated by Doron Langberg. In Inward Element (2018), a woman folds her legs in a flat plane, framed by a vegetal motif borrowed from Persian textiles. She’s entwined with a second body that is mostly off-frame. Khosravi’s paintings had something of Leonora Carrington’s poignant mysticism and narrative flair, but she combined Persian motifs with material experimentation. Like many critics, I thought Khosravi’s paintings were the standout of the show.

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