Art Basel

Maryam Hoseini

Green Art Gallery, Dubai

Fragmented, ruptured bodies and motifs multiply across Tehran-born, New York-based Maryam Hoseini’s paneled canvases. They contain themselves, yet remain liminal, mutable, and infinitely reconfigurable. They are at once architectural and impossible, in an Escherian way. This new suite of paintings, called ‘Bodies Do Not Resolve’, draws upon a cosmological text by 13th-century polymath Zakariya al-Qazwini to think through the contemporary condition. Swathes of checkerboard tiling suggest floors, but it is never quite clear which way is up. In the artist’s oeuvre, becoming is revealed to be a perpetual process and never a destination.