Asal Peirovi was born in Sari, Mazandaran Province, Iran in 1985. She lives and works in Tehran.
"In front of those buildings: a neatly arranged bouquet of flowers. Peirovi frequently leaves these elements to the forefront of her paintings, suggesting a transitioning from nature to culture, suggesting a day of celebrating or a day of mourning, and connecting with tradition of Persian miniature paintings – where “Tash'ir” denotes the custom of accompanying borders with floral or zoomorphic motifs, or ornaments not necessarily connected the main image. Peirovi takes interest in disrupting the relationship between the motif and the borders that surround it; continuously separating the two, allowing the picture to spill onto the periphery of the canvas, extending its narrative and, in accordance to Eastern thinking, abandoning the square as a representation of the terrestrial world to transmit from the material world to the unknown celestial. Pushing towards the borders and pushing together what exists within them – permitting monuments, mountainscapes, shrines, temples and accidents to all exist side by side."
Text from "Curtains II" at STANDARD (OSLO) in 2019, Peiorvi's first exhibition outside of Iran.
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