Safarani Sisters: Submerged In Time
August 1 - Sept 28, 2025
The Safarani sisters' new series of works reflect themes of celebrating memories. Balloons and string lights seen through a translucent surface convey a sense of mystery and speaks to the memories that exist in everyone’s life—those from our childhood or our unconscious. These memories may feel trapped or unclear, sometimes hidden behind a buffer we create to avoid remembering them clearly. Nostalgia can be mysterious, and has the potential to evoke pure happiness and also traumas we have been carrying. Through these works, the sisters aim to give nostalgia an ethereal, dreamlike quality and invite the audience to celebrate the power of memory.
About the Artists
The Safarani Sisters, Bahareh and Farzaneh (Iranian, b. 1990) began painting at the age of thirteen. They earned their B.A. in painting from Tehran University and M.F.A from Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts. Currently working and residing in Boston, over the past few years the sisters took on a journey in incorporating video and performance art into their passion for painting. Their pioneering video-paintings and performances have been acclaimed as thought provoking and transformative artistic contributions that weave together loose but striking narratives.