Ali Mohammad Sabouki
Boqche (Series)
DESCRIPTION
In this photo series, women and most importantly women heads are bundled up, artist hints about their thoughts and characteristics harmonious with the colors of their Boqches; floating like their thoughts are a shape flying around the room.
With their eyes shot they’re almost asleep like, stuck in these heavy bundles not able to get free of these Boqches, not able to get free of things they have learned to hold untouched and dear. Floating but not lightly.
What Sabouki has accomplished in this photo series, is showing us the complexities of a woman’s mind and all of the traditions that complicates her life.
*In Iranian tradition “Boqche“ is a bit of fabric wrapped around objects to keep them
secure, hidden or portable.
AUTHOR
Ali Sabouki, born in Shiraz (1985), works in Paris as an Iranian artist
and photographer. Ali attended the University of Art and Architecture
in Tehran to study Scenic Design. He has since worked across a variety
of mediums in theatre, movies, and visual arts
Over the last decade,
his focus has increasingly gravitated towards photography, portraits in
particular. His haunting portraiture explores the identity and connectedness
of the human spirit in isolation; taking stylistic cues from Old Masters while
exploring the human condition in modern life.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Embraces” Eran Art Gallery, Online, Canada 2023
“Embraces” GRK Gallery, Paris, France 2019
“Embraces” Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2018
“Myselves” Seyhoun 2 Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Art Capital, paris, France 2025
SalessGallery, tehran, iran 2024
1912 Gallery, Washington DC, USA, 2021
Art Olympia, Toshima, Japan 2019
Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2019
Chester Art Fair, Chester, United Kingdom 2019
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