Sadaf Sadri: De/Angular

Exhibition Run: January 8 - February 20, 2026 Opening: Thursday, January 8, 6:00 — 8:00pm Second Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6:00–8:00pm We were all sitting with Grandma in the afternoon. Maybe it was a Tuesday or a Wednesday. It had that long, stretched quality of a sunny Wednesday around 4PM. She was talking about a man I remembered from when I was four, the one who used to come to her old house every day at the same hour to sing her Quran verses. The house they demolished after my grandfather passed away, with its small concrete pool in the middle, and the restroom that terrified me, full of huge cockroaches that would fly right at your face. Every time he sang, she would cry hard and loud. Kind of like therapy. That afternoon, she said he was a good Seyed. In Shia Islam, they’re descendants of the Prophet. “I’ll ask him to pray for me so my wish comes true,” she said. “He is a real Seyed, you know, not like you!” And she pointed at me. She wasn’t wrong. I’d be considered quite eccentric in my ancestral house, which I am so fascinated by, I want to break apart over and over again. “I contemplate the unsettling of well-established space in search of creating a void to inhabit,” Sadri says. “Departing from a yearning for conceptual disruption, I restructure legacy systems with the soft, fluid materials of fabric and electricity to explore the holes, voids, and discontinuities that emerge in the process of making with alternative materials.” The angular geometries that define traditional Islamic architecture and ornamentation—those precise repetitions that build the identity and inheritance from ancestors—are here unraveled, made porous, and rendered uncertain. Through the malleability of projection mapping and textiles, "De/Angular" reveals what happens when the fixed becomes fluid and the transmitted pattern loses its edge. “In this disruption of pattern and language, I conjure folk counterparts from the heart of spell books and children’s nightmares, along with demons of mythology and literature as my forever protectors.” Those protectors guard the spaces between, the gaps where we might belong, where something new, however strange, might take form. Artist Talk: Friday, February 20, 6:00–7:00 pm Join Sadri and learn more about "De/Angular." No registration is required to attend the talk.

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