Shahin Afrassiabi • Liking • SB34 • 16.01.–28.01.2026

Shahin Afrassiabi’s recent series of paintings takes as its starting point a 1971 photograph of Francis Bacon in his London studio, taken by Francis Goodman and now held in the National Portrait Gallery. Afrassiabi dissects and reinterprets this image through a range of expressive painterly variations that hover between figuration and abstraction. Figuration, because we recognise the image of a person; abstraction, because that recognisability — bound to myth and to the legacy of painting itself — becomes self-reflexive.

‘Liking’ was held at SB34 in Ixelles, Belgium

More info on the show here.