Lot D

Says Niloufar Salimi, “With previous work my foremost desire was to keep everything in an ambiguous place, a certain poetry of the ‘in-between’. This sort of exploration was possible because the every-day brought with it certainty. When the pandemic cast many certain things into a grey area, I stopped working. In July 2020, I began to draw again. This daily drawing practice, concentrating on the old, wild apple trees looked at through my apartment window, brought purpose to the uncertain times. Never in my life had I had the desire to be present and to confirm each coming moment! And it was every day with the birth, the aging, and the dying of a leaf that this was possible. My purpose was not to represent, but simply to be with the leaf, the branch and the visible moment. Drawing a line is to follow the existence of the thing seen, to become that other existence, that other living thing. There is, anyway, enough complexity in things visible to allow a certain poetry.”

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Says Niloufar Salimi, “With previous work my foremost desire was to keep everything in an ambiguous place, a certain poetry of the ‘in-between’. This sort of exploration was possible because the every-day brought with it certainty. When the pandemic cast many certain things into a grey area, I stopped working. In July 2020, I began to draw again. This daily drawing practice, concentrating on the old, wild apple trees looked at through my apartment window, brought purpose to the uncertain times. Never in my life had I had the desire to be present and to confirm each coming moment! And it was every day with the birth, the aging, and the dying of a leaf that this was possible. My purpose was not to represent, but simply to be with the leaf, the branch and the visible moment. Drawing a line is to follow the existence of the thing seen, to become that other existence, that other living thing. There is, anyway, enough complexity in things visible to allow a certain poetry.”

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