Leila Heller Gallery is pleased to present a new body of work by Iranian American artist Afruz Amighi, No More Disguise, from June 22nd to July 28th, 2017. “We are a country of civil war, and from the eternal divide, the ever present rift, lifting their heads and making themselves known, faces emerge.” Amighi continues, “I cover them with headdresses I have made, to protect them, to reveal them, to honor and ridicule them.” The Emperor, the Empress, the Fool, the Warrior, the Beheaded, the Unborn: in a series of six graphite and six sculptural wall reliefs, composed as headdresses, Amighi renders a procession of passion and derision, formally presenting the figure in her oeuvre for the first time in a poetical invocation of the masquerade of power, or what the artist calls, “heroes and villains ... emerging from our new social and political landscape.”
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