PRIVATE VIEW: Farnaz Gholami 'Pearl Palace' Solo Exhibition

The Bomb Factory Art Foundation is an independent space for contemporary art based in Archway, north London. We are an artist-led non-profit organisation offering affordable studio space, a gallery and workshop to artists at any stage of their careers.There are over 20 resident artists ranging from recent graduates to internationally acclaimed prize winners.The Bomb Factory Art Foundation provides a dynamic context for the creation, support and experience of contemporary art through our evolving programme of exhibitions, open studio events, artist talks and educational activities.The Bomb Factory Art Foundation is a registered charity.

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PV: Farnaz Gholami's Solo Exhibition 'Pearl Palace and Other Buildings of a Misremembered Past' at Bomb Factory South, Chelsea

Bomb Factory South Gallery

Farnaz Gholami's interests lie in issues around geographical, cultural, and social dislocation. She is a painter who creates multi-layered works, using varying paint textures and glazes to conceal and reveal parts of an unknown narrative in usually unpopulated landscapes or interiors. The oddly unfamiliar nature of these places creates an uneasy visual balancing act between imagination and reality, abstraction and form, suggesting a different in-between place.Many works in the exhibition, in particular the ‘Palace’ paintings, were inspired by J. G. Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise. Gholami investigates what she considers to be the liminal space between utopia and dystopia through her paintings of the Pearl Palace and those of the western style cinema theatres in her home city of Tehran. The exhibition consists of works varying in scale: large canvases depict fragments of the facades of the cinema theatre buildings, whereas the small paintings are more abstract and undefined. Through fragmented imagery and layered painting planes, Gholami has created a space of her own that has departed from reality but represents her memories of those buildings of her homeland and it is this remembered and mysterious world that we visit through the paintings in this exhibition.InformationPrivate View: Wednesday 22nd June 2022, 6-9pmAddress: Bomb Factory South, The Plaza, 535 Kings Road, London, SW10 0SZTransport: Imperial Wharf (Overground), Fulham Broadway (District Line), Buses from Central London - 11, 22, C3.

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