Shahin Afrassiabi • FRANCIS – Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2023–2025 • 13.02.–28.03.2026
Shahin Afrassiabi
FRANCIS – Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2023–2025
13.02.–28.03.2026
Starting from an iconic photograph of Francis Bacon in his studio, taken in 1971 by Francis Goodman, Shahin Afrassiabi brings together more than seventy paintings in the immersive installation FRANCIS – Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2023–2025. The single image becomes a lasting point of reference and generates endless variations. The works unfold in space as an open painterly process without hierarchy, forming a dense field where no work dominates and the image keeps recomposing itself.
Installed without hierarchy or focal centre, the exhibition forms a dense constellation of faces, fragments and “earthscapes” that continuously echo and transform one another. Bacon becomes less a subject than a vehicle – a figure through which painting tests its own limits, oscillating between humour, absurdity and tragedy.
In conversation, Afrassiabi speaks about Bacon as a method, about repetition without resolution and about painting as a space of testing rather than depiction.
Read the conversation with the artist here. Available in English / Deutsch.
Shahin Afrassiabi (b. 1963, Tehran) holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College and lives and works in Granada and London.
