WRAP ME UP IN YOU: Nargess Hashemi

Family gatherings can be isolating experiences. They can remind us how dissimilar we are from our families, and often leave us feeling that they inhabit a world quite different from our own. 

In her second solo show in Dubai, Iranian artist Nargess Hashemi explores the coupled feelings of endearment and frustration she has about her own family. In this series of drawings Wrap Me Up In You, Hashemi reproduces scenes of familial gatherings that she has photographed in the past year. In a departure from the emotionally charged recollections of her childhood, presented in her last show at B21, Stories From the Boudoir, Hashemi explores recent events - capturing at once the domesticity and normality of these scenes and their odd disconnection from Iran's current reality.