Missed Mist

New body of work by Ali Kaeini examines how censorship, absence, and imagination have shaped visual language and representations of intimacy in post-revolution Persian pop culture. The exhibition marks the first presentation in Paris by an Iranian artist currently based in New York. Using references to Iranian calligraphy and working with dyed fabric, bleach, and collage, Kaeini creates ghost-like figures that appear through erasure rather than addition. The works reflect how censorship formed its own visual language, and how what is missing can still be strongly felt. Through paintings and ink drawings, he revisits scenes and moments that were removed, altered, or never shown in post-revolution Iranian cinema, focusing on how intimacy and human connection were shaped by restriction.