In Conversation:

Wednesday 23 April, 6pm
Hales New York, 547 W 20th Street, New York, NY 10011

 

Hales is delighted to host a conversation between Sarah Faux and Mariam Rahmani on 23 April at 6pm. The talk is presented in conjunction with Autofriction, an exhibition of new work by Sarah Faux on view at Hales New York through 26 April. The discussion will touch on overlapping themes in Faux and Rahmani's respective work, including romance, intimacy and opacity, and constructions of the self.

 

Sarah Faux is a painter whose somatic work lies at the threshold of figuration and abstraction. Working with stretched and cut-out canvas, her paintings explore the delights and contradictions of living in a body. In bold swaths of color, intertwining shapes slide and slip, pushing and pulling, as imagery comes in and out of focus. Faux's fluid compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our emotional and sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Faux was a 2023-24 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and in 2024, was a resident at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO.

 

Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her debut novel Liquid, A Love Story - out this spring with Algonquin in the US and Doubleday in the UK - has been lauded in outlets like The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, British Vogue, and Foreign Policy. Her fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Granta, Gulf Coast, n+1, New York Magazine, People, and elsewhere. Her first translation was well reviewed in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Liquid was named an Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of the Year and a March Book of the Month Club Main Pick. It is currently being translated into Italian, Dutch, and Croatian.

 

No RSVP required; seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis.