The first solo exhibition in the UAE of independent artist-designer Banafsheh Hemmati is hosted from 9 to 31 October 2025 at Satellite Gallery, DIFC. Titled Body Geometry, the exhibition brings together wearable jewellery and sculpture in a unified yet shifting dialogue. Based in Tehran, Hemmati draws from the foundational forms of Islamic geometry, reworking them into a contemporary design language that moves beyond ornamentation. Here, geometry does not serve only as structure – it breathes, stretches, and scales, connecting the intimate with the monumental.
Rooted in research and guided by a philosophical inquiry into the nature of form, Body Geometry charts a reversal of classical Islamic thought: not a journey from the many toward the one, but from the one to the many. Through this lens, geometry becomes generative, its purity fractured and reassembled into complex spatial experiences. Visitors are invited to consider how geometric pattern – repeating, rotating, unfolding – can link body to architecture, East to West, past to possibility.
The exhibition also reveals the process behind the pieces, mapping Hemmati’s movement across materials and scale. Jewellery becomes a site of exploration rather than decoration; sculpture becomes a body in space. This duality underpins her wider practice, which spans two decades and includes lighting, furniture, and architectural commissions. Her work was most recently seen at Dubai Design Week and in multiple editions of DIFC Sculpture Park, where Seven Cypresses and The Eternal Gateway marked her as a key independent voice within the region’s art scene.
With a background in industrial design and a doctorate in the philosophy of art, Hemmati positions herself between disciplines. In Body Geometry, this in-betweenness becomes form itself; provisional, resonant, and always in transformation.
Location: Satellite Gallery, DIFC, Dubai, UAE.
Date: 9 until 31 October 2025
About Banafsheh Hemmati
Banafsheh Hemmati is an Iranian designer-artist whose work moves between disciplines, shaped by a deep engagement with geometry, material, and meaning. Drawing from Islamic architectural motifs, she reworks traditional forms into contemporary expressions. Her practice spans jewellery, sculpture, furniture, and spatial installation, all rooted in a philosophical inquiry into form and perception. Holding a Master’s in Industrial Design and a PhD in Philosophy of Art, Hemmati has exhibited widely across Iran, Europe, Asia, and the United States. She is also a member of Klimt02 and contributes to Art Jewelry Forum.