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Negareh Ayat

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Iranian Visual Artist
Lives and works in France.

Negareh Ayat's practice explores the intertwined notions of memory, identity, and displacement. Drawing from both personal experience and broader reflections on exile and cultural transmission, her paintings investigate the spaces where histories, places, and identities intersect.

Her work is characterised by a refined use of colour, luminous atmospheres, and layered compositions. Figures, architectural elements, and landscapes appear as fragments of memory, suspended between presence and disappearance, certainty and imagination.

Through subtle processes of accumulation and transparency, Ayat creates paintings that resist fixed narratives. Rather than offering a single interpretation, her works invite viewers to engage with their own memories and emotional experiences.

By bringing together personal and collective histories, Negareh Ayat's practice reflects on belonging, migration, and cultural memory, affirming painting as a space of dialogue beyond geographical and cultural boundaries.