Search results for 'Hanie Soltani' at the museum of art

Hanie Soltani’s paintings explore identity, memory, and the emotional complexity of human experience through a deeply personal form of figurative painting. People — and particularly women — occupy a central place in her work, appearing in interiors and everyday settings that feel intimate yet psychologically charged. Rather than constructing fixed narratives, Soltani brings figures, objects, patterns, and fragments of their surroundings into shifting relationships, allowing the viewer’s attention to move gradually across the image. Her compositions often hover between the real and the imagined, transforming familiar situations into enigmatic scenes in which vulnerability, resilience, solitude, and human connection quietly coexist. Soltani’s visual language brings together the rich colour sensibility of Persian painting and the figurative traditions of Western art, while remaining unmistakably contemporary and personal. Bold, intuitive colour, layered surfaces, and carefully orchestrated compositions give her paintings an intensity that extends beyond their subjects. Yet beneath their visual richness lies a remarkable sense of stillness: gestures, glances, rooms, and everyday objects become carriers of memory and emotion. Soltani does not simply describe the people she paints; she creates spaces in which their inner worlds can be sensed, leaving the meaning of each image open enough for viewers to bring their own memories and experiences to the encounter.