Art Spiel
What Remains: In dialogue with Arghavan Khosravi
June 23, 2026
Altarpieces—historically sites of devotion, revelation, and spiritual certainty—become something altogether different in Arghavan Khosravi’s What Remains, currently on view at Uffner & Liu through July 2. The exhibition brings together large-scale wall works, a freestanding sculpture, and an intimate suite of new altar-inspired paintings that continue Khosravi’s ongoing exploration of the forces that shape women’s lives under political, cultural, and religious systems of control. Drawing equally from Persian miniature painting and medieval European iconography, the artist constructs layered worlds where architectural structures become psychological spaces, symbols migrate across histories, and moments of resistance emerge within conditions of constraint. Rather than offering resolution, the works linger in states of suspension—between freedom and captivity, memory and displacement, devotion and doubt.
The exhibition coincides with Khosravi’s inclusion in the Aldrich Decennial at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, a survey highlighting artists who have shaped the institution’s recent history. Across both presentations, Khosravi’s work engages questions of power, agency, and survival through richly layered visual narratives that collapse distinctions between past and present, personal experience and collective history. We spoke with Khosravi about the origins of the Altar Series, the role of personal narrative in this new body of work, and how What Remains reflects her ongoing investigation into the structures that continue to shape contemporary life.
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