Ayda Roozbayani’s solo exhibition The Edges, is on view from 1 until 15 August 2025 at SARAI Gallery, Tehran. In her second exhibition at the gallery, Roozbayani deepens her exploration of solitude, estrangement, and adaptation in the context of contemporary life.
Through layered oil compositions that draw from photographs of real places, Roozbayani creates imagined landscapes suspended between memory and metaphor. These works unfold at the margins of experience, of geography, of self-marking what she calls the “edges” of inner and outer worlds.
Raised in Chabahar, with roots in Zahedan, Roozbayani invokes the sea not as a backdrop but as a site of reflection and displacement. Water appears throughout her paintings not to calm, but to trace the contours of absence and psychological distance. In The Edges, the ocean becomes a border: between places, between people, between past and present.
Her work captures the quiet instability of modern life emphasising our increasing detachment from nature, from community, and at times from ourselves. Rather than depict collapse, Roozbayani’s paintings suggest the subtler forms of transformation and survival, offering a quietly resonant meditation on the emotional terrain of adaptation.
Location: SARAI Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
Date: 1 until 15 August, 2025.