Collective Sleep, 2025

About NARGES REZAEI

Narges Rezaei is a painter whose work explores the human figure within the rhythms and tensions of everyday life. Drawing on family relationships, urban encounters, and moments of collective experience, she depicts familiar scenes in which intimacy, solitude, and subtle forms of alienation coexist. Working primarily with acrylic, Rezaei often begins with fleeting moments captured through mobile photography, transforming them through painting into layered and psychologically charged compositions. Her figures move between realism and deformation, creating images that are at once recognisable and quietly estranged. Through these scenes, Rezaei reflects on the experience of contemporary life and the complex relationships that shape it. Rezaei was selected for KHOR Art Initiative 2025 at SARAI Gallery, Tehran.