Arda Aslanian
Untitled from Drapes Collection
2023
Oil on canvas
80 x 110 cm
Drapes can be seen as the social and psychological filters we use to navigate our interactions with the world. Yet always, the drapes remain a symbolic boundary, a threshold between the inner and the outer, the self and the other.
In this way, drapes become a poetic metaphor for the complex interplay of intimacy and distance, vulnerability, and protection, that defines our social and psychological lives. They remind us that we are always negotiating the delicate dance between exposure and concealment, between the desire to connect and the fear of being seen.
Arda Aslanian is an Armenian Jordanian architect and a visual artist, based in Amman. Much of her art explores the behavioral unwritten rules of beliefs, attitudes and influences in social groups or cultures. She also emphasizes the possibilities of the human body, with a particular prominence on the female form and the complexities of framing women within a patriarchal society. Her art is the outcome of her constant questions and exploration of her being and belonging and her subjects act as mirrors for her innermost feelings.
Born in 1981 in Amman, Jordan. Since 2018 she participated in several local and international group exhibitions.
