Asal Peirovi

Asal Peirovi’s delicate acrylic and ecoline paintings on linen depict collage-like geometric shapes mixed with landscapes and natural and man-made phenomena. Her works show recurring soft colours of pale blue and pink amidst a variety of painting styles and techniques. Periovi’s practice is contextualised by her personal experiences, depicting fragments of her journeys, travels and memories. In her Passing through Alborz Range in 3’ 20 exhibition (Chapter NY, 2021), the artist was referencing the journey she would take to go to her hometown in Northern Iran while studying in Tehran. The visual and emotive experience of repeated travel between two cities is vividly translated into her painting’s eloquent geometry of landscape. The architectural details of platforms and buildings blend with patterns of paint, creating a seemingly flat perspective, reminiscent of classical Persian painting. Delicate and geometrically satisfying, Peirovi’s pieces are intriguing glimpses of that which is at once familiar and unpredictable.