Like the work of her elders Nasreen Mohamedi and Zarina, Berlinbased Haleh Redjaian’s austere but playful abstractions exemplify an alternative Minimalist practice, one that simultaneously engages and troubles the grid, not wholly dismissing its potential for supporting and generating ornament and pattern, and that expresses the weight of memory and affect through the strategic use of reductive nonobjective forms.
Haleh Redjaian
Murtaza Vali, Artforum, 1 January 2016