VIAN SORA: Sky from Below
Forthcoming exhibition
Overview
The idea for the series on view in Sky from Below began to percolate when the artist revisited the Middle East recently and flew over her homeland, Iraq. After 18 years away, she could still recognize traces of familiarity within a landscape that has significantly changed. Sora poured the emotional chain reaction that ensued onto the canvas, resulting in the works on view. The series approaches the feeling of identity loss by creating an opposite world of lush environments and landscapes. The imagined, mythical landscapes and scenery represent an incessant dance between creating and annihilating, of adapting to new realities and multilayered existences. This summer, she will have a traveling solo museum tour of the last 10 years of her work.
