Laila Tara H (b.1995, London/Tehran) deconstructs the aesthetic framework of the Indo/Persian miniature tradition. Hybridising traditional painting materials and methods to form her own visual language, disentangling compositions, and exploring the material breadth of paper. Her works asses social structures and interpersonal dynamics often in the context of sociopolitical circumstance and the domestic space.
Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include: India Art Fair, Indigo+Madder, Delhi 2024; Time Future, Alberto Di Castro, Rome 2023; Sum, Sarabande Foundation, London 2023; New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London 2023; Nay, her foot speaks, Cooke Latham Gallery, London 2023; Hastan/هستن (with Narges Mohammadi), Copperfield, London 2023; Isabella Ducrot, Laila Tara H, Anousha Payne at Super Super Markt, Berlin 2023, In Studio Drake's London, New York, 2022, Twisted toes, tangled ears (with Anousha Payne), Public Gallery, London 2022, duck duck goose Purdy Hicks Gallery, London 2022, Vexilloid O Gallery, Tehran, 2021, Sky-Circles (with Anusheh Zia Siddiqui), Indigo+Madder, London, 2021, Am I? V.O Curations, London, 2021.
Laila Tara H will have a solo exhibition at the gallery in June 2024.