Odprtje razstave Shirin Salehi / Opening of the exhibition by Shirin Salehi

📣✨V četrtek, 10. septembra 2026, Vas in Vaše prijatelje ob 18. uri vljudno vabimo v Mednarodni grafični likovni center v Ljubljani na odprtje razstave vizualne umetnice, pedagoginje, književne prevajalke in tolmačke za perzijski jezik Shirin Salehi. Rodila se je v Teheranu, danes pa živi in ustvarja v Madridu.

Njena umetniška praksa povezuje risbo, knjigo umetnika, kiparstvo, grafiko, zvok in poezijo ter raziskuje spomin, govorico in prevajanje. Značilnost njenega dela je odsotnost podobe, ki odpira prostor alternativnim pripovedim, kjer govorica sreča lastne meje, kjer glas vznike kot šepet, šum ali pesem in hkrati postaja zatočišče pred nasiljem in oblika upora.
Kje so meje govorice? Kaj besede dejansko izrazijo ali povežejo in kaj neizogibno ostane zunaj njihovega dosega? Delo Shirin Salehi se umešča prav na to mejo, kjer govorica ne more več doseči žalovanja, izgona ali nasilja in kjer tišina preneha označevati odsotnost ter postane način izražanja in prostor, ki ga lahko skupaj naselimo.

Kustosinji razstave: LaOtra (María Amador & Patricia Sorroche)

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You and your friends are cordially invited to join us at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 10 September 2026 at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana for the opening of an exhibition by Shirin Salehi, a visual artist, educator, literary translator and Persian interpreter. Born in Teheran, she currently lives in Madrid.

Her artistic practice connects drawing, artist’s books, sculpture, printmaking, sound, and poetry, exploring memory, language, and translation. Her work is marked by the near absence of images that opens up space for alternative narratives, where language encounters its own limits, where the voice emerges as a whisper, stammer, murmur, or song and, at the same time, as a refuge from violence and a form of resistance.

Which boundaries define of language? What do words articulate, connect, or inevitably leave beyond their reach? Shirin Salehi’s practice is situated precisely at this threshold: where language can no longer grasp grief, exile, or violence, and where silence ceases to signify absence and instead becomes a mode of expression and a space we can inhabit together.

Curators of the exhibition: LaOtra (María Amador & Patricia Sorroche)

📷Shirin Salehi, El odivlo no avilia, video, 2025 (izsek iz videa/video still). Foto/Photo: arhiv umetnice/artist’s archive.