“Assemblages.” Sepideh Salehi’s First Solo Exhibition in Italy at Anna Marra Gallery

Rome — On Wednesday, March 11, Anna Marra Gallery opened Assemblages, the first solo exhibition in Italy by artist Sepideh Salehi, curated by Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah.

Sepideh Salehi. Courtesy the Artist and Anna Marra Gallery

The exhibition presents a selection of works rooted in collage, printmaking, and drawing, reflecting Salehi’s distinctive layered approach, which interweaves memory, material, and transformation.

Salehi’s female figures, partially concealed, move with a gestural rhythm through real and imagined landscapes of Iran. Suspended in space, they seem to inhabit a dimension built through successive layers, in which the artist interweaves found photographs, drawings, and motifs impressed with ritual prayer stones. The act of covering, however, does not concern only the female bodies, but extends to the worlds they inhabit, opening a broader reflection on the relationship between what is real and what is constructed — politically, physically, and metaphorically.

Sepideh Salehi. Assemblages

March 11 – April 18, 2026

Anna Marra Gallery | Via Sant'Angelo in Pescheria, 3200186 Rome, Italy