Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi: Here the waving flag. Here the other world.

MoCA Arlington
September 27, 2025 - January 25, 2026

HEMPHILL is pleased to share Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi: Here the waving flag. Here the other world. on view at MoCA Arlington from September 27, 2025 - January 25, 2026.

Over the last fifteen years, Ilchi has cultivated a unique painting practice that merges the conventions and techniques of Western abstraction with the visual language of Persian art and architecture. The complexity and distinctiveness of Ilchi’s work comes from her commitment to material exploration, her deep engagement with art history, and the incorporation of her unique personal history. Ilchi brings new energy and perspectives to material and thematic traditions from throughout art history, including the practice of abstraction and the role of the sublime in contemporary art.

Throughout her work, Ilchi considers the tensions she feels as an immigrant and the conflicts that have shaped the relationship between the United States and Iran. Her early work draws on her experience growing up in Iran in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution, under the Islamic Republic’s ongoing repression of women and suppression of dissent. More recently, her work engages aesthetic influences from 19th century landscape painting to consider the possibilities of the sublime in the 21st century...

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