Hoda Kashiha | "Violence of Beauty": +2 [Deh - Vanak}
15 August - 12 September 2025 +2
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Hoda Kashiha | 'Violence of Beauty', +2 [Deh - Vanak}
A Solo Presentation of works by Hoda Kashiha at +2 [Deh-Vanak].
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Parallel Circuit at +2 (Deh-Vanak) proudly announces “Violence of Beauty,” a solo exhibition by Hoda Kashiha, her second solo presentation with Parallel Circuit. On view 15 August–12 September 2025, the presentation is conceived specifically for the Deh-Vanak space and centers on a floor-based display that reframes how the works are seen and navigated.
 
“Violence of Beauty” is not a painting exhibition in the conventional sense; rather, it is an installation that uses paintings to construct an environment.As Kashiha herself describes, the exhibition is an open invitation to beauty in its broadest sense, offered at a time when everything feels fragile and impermanent, much like beauty itself. In this project, Kashiha extends her previous explorations of light and shadow; experiments that had appeared, though more modestly, in her earlier works. By installing paintings directly on the floor and casting direct beams of light across them the interplay of light and shadow becomes more deliberate and systematized. Recurring motifs – butterflies, horizon lines or sunrises, a hand holding a rose, and a hand tracing a red line – appear in clusters of paintings that create a visual path from the entrance to the far end of the space.
 
Hoda Kashiha (b. 1986, Tehran) lives and works in Tehran. She received a BA in Painting from the University of Tehran (2009) and an MFA from Boston University (2014). Moving between everyday observation and staged imagery, Kashiha weaves non-linear narratives and dry humor with references that range from Malevich to social media. Works typically begin as digital sketches and are then built, layer by layer, on canvas. The body – fragmented, comic, vulnerable – anchors these compositions, where figuration drifts into abstraction and long-standing gender binaries are unsettled through airbrush, stencil, and tablet-based mark-making. Kashiha has presented solo exhibitions, "The Doubt Between Us Sways Like Hung Mirrored Eyes" (The Episode, New York, 2025); "Another World is Waiting For Us" (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, 2023); "I am Here, I Am Not Here" (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, 2022); "I’m Here, I’m Not Here" (Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brest, 2022); "In Appreciation of Blinking" (Parallel Circuit, Tehran, 2021), among others. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions including "100 Years", presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch (Miami, 2022); City Prince/sses at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2019); "Human Condition" (Los Angeles, 2016); and presentations in London, New York, Shanghai, Dubai, and Toronto. She is the recipient of awards and residencies such as the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Esther B. & Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award, and participated in Residency Unlimited (2024). Her works are held in public and private collections in Europe and the United States.
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