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The Armory Show 2025
Iman Raad - Nicky Nodjoumi - Pooya Aryanpour - Mahsa Merci -
At the Armory Show 2025, Dastan presents works by Nicky Nodjoumi (b. 1942), Pooya Aryanpour (b. 1971), Iman Raad (b. 1979), and Mahsa Merci (b. 1990). The presentation reflects on repetition and the lingering unease that arises from cycles of return and recurrence.Iman Raad’s works feature faces shown in repeated sequences. This repetition creates a mix of familiarity and unease, suggesting that beauty can also carry a sense of disturbance when forms return with unsettling persistence. Nicky Nodjoumi reflects on power, history, and the repetition of human conflicts. His works present fragmented yet insistent imagery, recalling cycles of authority and resistance, and creating an atmosphere of quiet but unrelenting disquiet.Mahsa Merci engages with portraiture through dense, impasto-like oil touches, where repetition lies in the very technique of layering paint. Her figures emerge with a deliberately uneven surface, their skin marked by an unsettling texture that resists smoothness. Often depicted in makeup or drag, they seem to move beyond conventional ideals of beauty, evoking instead a charged atmosphere.Pooya Aryanpour’s sculptural work introduces a spatial dimension to repetition, where reflective surfaces and elongated forms establish an environment of both allure and unease. His approach embodies the psychological weight of recurrence as a formal and emotional condition.
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Pooya Aryanpour
From "Fruit of Elysian" Series, 2024Kiln-fired dyed glass, mirror fragment and plaster on fiberglass structure with styrofoam core
143 x 38 x 34 cm
56 1/2 x 15 x 13 1/2 in -
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Iman Raad
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