A practice of
fragments and gold.

Asal RavanArt works between two grammars — the geometric stillness of Persian miniature and the broken composure of European cubism. Each canvas is approached as a vow rather than a picture; a private agreement between the artist and the surface to leave nothing decorative behind.

Her palette is restrained and almost devotional — molten gold, warm bronze, oxidised crimson, the faintest blue. Figures appear and dissolve. A face becomes architecture. Architecture becomes memory. The work refuses to explain itself, but never refuses to listen.

Born of Persian heritage and raised in the quiet north, she lives and paints in Sweden. The studio is small. The hours are long. The work travels further than the artist does.