Farima Fooladi: The Fever

From Lawndale

“Farima Fooladi’s The Fever is a series of new paintings that explore the interplay between architecture, memory, and displacement. These paintings were created during Fooladi’s 2024 MacDowell residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire. 

In the words of Rachel Vera Steinberg (Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY), “These paintings propose a progression of time when one can be confident that more memories will accrue and, therefore, increase the spatial depth. As Fooladi’s frames continue to expand, the world becomes bigger, more chaotic, and more nuanced through the palimpsests left within the edifice of her memory.”