Niloofar Vejdani’s recent work is a study of nesting empty spaces. Exposing a woman’s loneliness by bordering mirrors, framing doors and walls, creating a shattered image or shadow. She has skillfully created calculated compositions which represent the geometrical shapes of a house in contrast with the female figure. Perhaps a self-portrait or imaged after the females of her generation; lost and found in the familiar maze of their lives. These visual behaviors are manifested by reflective and repeated light and darkness of mirrors, reminiscent of Velazquez’s famed work. The paintings have both the usage of doorways, windows and mirrors and are indicative of them. The woman or femininity, in absence of a complete image, obscured by drapery or their silhouettes shadow like figures suggest a longing and loneliness in them. The shadows, lights, reflections, the visible and the hidden have turned the houses into mysterious places for existence. The concealed presence of the figures with their backs to the audience, summons us to contemplate.
Behnam Kamrani
