Solipsistic Night Visions, Observerless Observations
Producer and Curator: Mimi Amini
Project Manager: Javid Ghaem Maghami

3 January – 14 March 2025

The Pejman Foundation: Argo Factory is pleased to present Solipsistic Night Visions, Observerless Observations, an exhibition/project showcasing a selection of works by Mimi Amini as she approaches the fourth decade of her artistic career. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures and virtual reality video. Coinciding with the opening, a book (in Persian and English) will be published, including texts by Ali Nasir, Sohrab Mahdavi, Ghazal Zare, Hamidreza Pejman, Mimi Amini, and Mahan Moallemi, alongside images of her works displayed at Argo Factory.
Maryam (Mimi) Amini (b. 1977, Isfahan) is an Iranian artist known for her multidisciplinary practice across painting, drawing, installation, sculptures, video, and performance. She completed her academic studies at the Isfahan School of Fine Arts and the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Art. What distinguishes the canvases of Mimi Amini is her penchant for openness.  Painting is a springboard that the artist, or viewer, each in their own way, uses to dive into a different realm.
Solipsistic Night Visions, Observerless Observations belongs to a “Dreamy Geography” where every pathway connects to the next through its innate implications and its conceptual essence. A map of the inner and outer space of the venue provides meaning to the narrative-in-motion (without a beginning, without a middle, and without an end). So, this is a path! In the same way that an alchemist pays attention to material elements and summons back the joy of youth, I synthesize the path and the goal in my work, and ultimately bring a lyrical and literary ethos to the work. Paintings, sounds, lights, semiotic markers, and maps are meant to affect a distance, to invite the viewers to leave the two-dimensional and enter the three-dimensional world. They experience this world by arriving at an understanding of the moment. This unifies the author, the observer, and the object (the work of art) without privileging the object. As such, the presence of the viewer in the midst of the installation shall be an elemental and dynamic event. [ Exhibition Publication, Mimi Amini, P. 9]

The Pejman Foundation sincerely thanks Amir Hossein Etemad for his collaboration and support in making this exhibition possible.

Project Assistant: Erfan Aghighi
Team: Shakiba Abdollahian, Reza Hasani, Sahand Lavasani, Sharzin Hajilou and Noushin Allah-dini
Poster: Shahin Aghdam Sayssan + Mimi Amini

Thanks to:
Kaveh Ahmadian, Amir Bayat, Arash Tavakoli, Hasan Khorshidi, Behrang Samadzadegan, Arash Sedaghatkish, Peyman Safavi, Amin Sabouri, Soheil Abdollahi, Sam Asgari, Foad Sharifi, Fojan Fard, Nazanin Ghavidel, Amir Nasr Kamgooyan, Pari Moradi, Shima Mir-Hosseini, Fazel Mosallah-Nejad and Omid Homayoun