Zohreh Mehraban said: “We must be able to present our artists to international standards, translate local narratives into a global language, and demonstrate that art from the region is not a ‘special subject’ for a global audience, but part of the contemporary conversation of world art.”
The closer we move toward the faces, the less we encounter identity and the more a kind of ambiguity emerges—an ambiguity that forms one of the work’s fundamental semantic foundations: the body is intensely present, while identity remains largely absent.
The curator of “Beyond the Wall, This Side of the Window” at MAAD Gallery, Tehran, Sepideh Zarrat, has commissioned 22 new works from 16 artists in order to complete and expand the exhibition’s conceptual, formal, and chromatic palette, while introducing works that have not previously been exhibited. The newly created works are being presented at MAAD Gallery for the first time, with each offering an individual interpretation of the central idea of this curatorial project.
Watch Kimia Nakhaei, ArtDayMe's correspondent, reporting from MAAD Gallery, which transformed Bagh-e 13 Chenar in Tehran's Darakeh district into the setting for a sculpture and installation exhibition curated by Zohreh Mehraban, Founder and Director of MAAD Gallery.
The founder and director of MAAD Gallery believes that, from New York and London to Dubai, Doha, Jeddah, Beirut, Abu Dhabi, and Tehran, art is no longer merely a cultural icon—it has become an investment asset.
MAAD Gallery is presenting Unto Human, a group exhibition featuring 35 sculptures and installations, on view through Friday, 31 July 2026, at Bagh-e Sizdah Chenar in Tehran.
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