A Chain of Quite Collisions Exhibition
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Hasti Riahi
Curated by Iman Irannejad
12 September to 1 October 2025
Local Edition Gallery, 279 Broadway, Glebe
In A Chain of Quiet Collisions, artist Hasti Riahi explores the meeting points of emotion, material, and memory through an expansive approach to painting. Her works combine acrylics, gouache, pastels, watercolours, inks, and chalk with unconventional elements such as garden soil, stones, and medical bandages. This rich layering of media transforms textures, shadows, and inner visions into surfaces that hold both intensity and intimacy.
Hasti’s process is shaped by her immediate surroundings and mental landscapes, where collisions between the seen and the felt create unexpected forms. By embracing diverse materials, she develops a distinctive language of abstraction that resists containment and encourages viewers to linger in the spaces between gesture and atmosphere.
With decades of practice, Hasti brings a depth of experience that guides her experimentation. Trained in Tehran and later in Sydney, she has balanced teaching and mentoring with a lifelong devotion to painting, which remains the central force of her creative journey.
Curated by Iman Irannejad, the exhibition positioned Hasti’s work within a wider conversation about materiality and the act of making. In these paintings, quiet collisions become moments of transformation, where layered surfaces and mixed media open to new interpretations of human experience.