The Third Line is pleased to present Close-up, Farhad Moshiri’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Following the artist’s first US-based museum solo, which was held at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh last year, Farhad returns to the UAE with a new body of hand embroidered works.

Close-up includes new works produced in 2018, as well as two portraits from 2014 that have never been shown before. All of them employ Farhad’s signature technique of hand-embroidering beads to form reproductions of photographs. The imagery moves between the real and the imagined, and much of the style of working continues to provide a critical commentary on the East-West dichotomy, which is ever present in the artist’s practice. The exhibition includes several works that reference western popular culture rendered in the time-consuming tradition of Iranian craftsmanship, providing a humorous but poignant juxtaposition on the fastness and slowness of time.