Galerie Christophe Gaillard
Soufia Erfanian , Iran
"Lies That Bled Blue"
Soufia Erfanian, I Truly Love Both of You, 2024, Acrylique sur toile, 230 x 180 cm.
Galerie Christophe Gaillard is delighted to present for the first time the work of Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian, Iranian artists currently in residence at the Fondation Pinault Lens. These two exhibitions are the result of their first months of research and creation at the Foundation, and offer an intimate and poignant look at experiences of transformation, isolation and memory.
In the front space, Soufia Erfanian presents Lies That Bled, a series of canvases that revisit fragmented memories of a childhood marked by loss and uprooting. Between the sudden disappearance of a father and the forced estrangement of a mother under patriarchal laws, her work focuses on the way the past is reconstructed through memory, oscillating between truth, imagination and oblivion. Rather than freezing an answer, her paintings open up a space where trauma becomes an ever-evolving process, an intimate path towards reconciliation and healing.
Solo show of Soufia Erfanian
From May 15th to June 21st, 2025
The gallery
Founded in 2007, the Christophe Gaillard gallery moved in 2015 to a beautiful 300m2 mansion in the Marais. In 2020, she inaugurated the Residence – Le Tremblay, a private place encouraging contemporary research and creation. In 2023 it was set up in Brussels, in a mansion located opposite KANAL - Center Pompidou. It represents Estates such as Michel Journiac or Pierre Tal Coat, as well as contemporary art figures such as Hélène Delprat or Anita Molinero while welcoming young artists. She participates in numerous fairs such as Art Basel Basel/Paris/Miami, Brafa, Paris Photo,…
Gallery artists
Bina Baitel, Marcel Bascoulard, Eric Baudart, Pierre Bettencourt, Pierre Yves Bohm, Stéphane Couturier, Hélène Delprat, Marina Gadonneix, Cate Giordano, Dave Hardy, Thibault Hazelzet, Rachel De Joode, Michel Journiac, Fabian Knecht, Katarzyna Kozyra, Michelle Lopez, Brian MAGUIRE, Isabelle Le Minh, Anita Molinero, Julien Des Monstiers, Georges Noël, Richard Nonas, Leo Orta, Daniel Pommereulle, SMITH, Kate Steciw, Ceija Stojka, Pierre Tal Coat, Pablo Tomek, Deborah Turbeville, Philippe Vandenberg, Hannah Whitaker, Letha Wilson
