Lot 78: Samira Alikhanzadeh (Iran, born 1967) Untitled,

Untitled, acrylic and mirror fragments on board, signed in Farsi and dated 2010 in Farsi and English lower right, 130 x 100cm (51 3/16 x 39 3/8in).

This work is from a series titled With the Passage of Time.

The addition of embossed mirrors, a style rooted in Iranian mirror mosaics, adds a new visual experience to my works from this period, which is the paradoxical functioning of mirrors that should produce our image by reflection whereas our image is lost by refraction. Getting lost in mirrors is a new theme that will probably be used extensively in future works.

Samira Alikhanzadeh, April 2010.