The Signatures (1), 2025 
The Signatures (2), 2025 
The Signatures (3), 2025 
A Case (1), 2025 
 A Case (2), 2025 
The Gutter, 2025 

  Pencil on paper, painted wooden frame
198 x 65 cm; 174 x 77 cm; 155 x 90.5 cm; 28 x 26 cm; 35.5 x 23 cm; 50 x 23 cm

With a text by Sanabel Abdelrahman


Nooshin Askari’s pencil drawings move between ornament and object. Ornamental structures and forms that at times evoke walls, facades, or architectural fragments are interrupted by objects such as teapots or by disorienting, glitch-like shifts. In a continuous play between the emergence and dissolution of form, the works resist any fixed reading. Forms become figures, signs turn into things, and backgrounds move into the foreground. The resulting sense of disorientation is accompanied by a subtle playfulness, drawing attention to the instability of perception, which is never objective but always relational, situated, and shaped by time, space, and individual experience.