Contemporary Translations

Bringing together four artistic practices, this exhibition operates through translation: moving between image and matter, archive and body, algorithm and authorship, and beauty and power. Marina Gasparini, Rabee Baghshani, Santiago Paredes, Serge Gualini and Yvonne Mak present works that, while diverse in form and context, share a commitment to layered narratives and to the artist's active role in reconfiguring cultural and material systems. Across the exhibition, the image is never treated as a fixed or autonomous surface. Instead, it is continuously embedded in textile and re-materialized, recontextualized through cultural memory, or mobilized as a site of identity and resistance. Digital technologies and historical references are not ends in themselves but starting points for transformation. Marina Gasparini explores textiles as a living archive of knowledge and economic history and the relationship between textile production and nature. Santiago Paredes approaches image-making from a post-object perspective, where digital painting on velvet becomes a visual pleasure and cultural simulation, dissolving boundaries between art, design, and fashion. Serge Gualini's AI practice insists on human authorship within algorithmic production. Blending Persian visual heritage with Western pop culture, Rabee Baghshani creates digital collages that address questions of gender, visibility, and identity.