Bita Fayyazi | "What Remains..": Parallel Circuit

Parallel Circuit presents "What Remains", a solo exhibition by Bita Fayyazi presented at +2 (Deh-Vanak). The exhibition opens on Friday, July 17, and will be on view through August 14, 2026.
"What Remains" brings together a series of collages, paintings, and drawings on paper created using diverse techniques such as pastel, watercolor, ink, acrylic, and colored pencil. The exhibition also includes a group of small ceramic sculptures.
In the aftermath of the war and its consequences, Bita Fayyazi stopped making sculptures for several months. During this period, she visited her studio only to tend to the space and care for her cats, while a small room in her home became a place for drawing and painting.
Rather than working out of enthusiasm, she continued her artistic practice through discipline, insisting on recording each day in some form.
With the internet entirely cut off, the continuous stream of images broadcast on television became her only connection to the outside world. These images entered her daily life, forming both a subject of observation and a means of recording lived experience.
At the center of the exhibition, nearly fifty ceramic sculptures created before the recent events are arranged on a longplinth. In them, color and form take precedence over representation. At first glance, the sculptures appear to be organic, vividly colored shapes; upon closer inspection, they reveal themselves to be a sleeping cat, a rider on horseback, or a woman with the head of an eagle.
The two-dimensional works emerge through a similar process. As continuous brushstrokes and dense hatching unfold across the surface, the forms of a dog, a human figure, or even a flowering branch gradually become visible. Still in progress, the series continues to grow as an archive of memory, encounter, and the persistence of artistic practice under conditions of crisis.
In the Showroom, Fayyazi presents "What Remains" an installation constructed from discarded cardboard boxes. Facing the installation, a stop-motion animation is projected onto the wall, reimagining the same structure in a state suspended between presence and absence.
Also included in the exhibition is a portrait of Bahman Mohassess by Mehdi Vishkaei (1921-2006), presented from Bita Fayyazi's personal collection. It is shown alongside two collages by the artist featuring portraits of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) and Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). Together, these works pay tribute to figures whose ideas and artistic approaches have had a lasting influence on Fayyazi's intellectual development and artistic practice.