Iranian Australian artist Bibi Soleimani, lives and works in Gadigal land (Sydney). Bibi explores the metaphysical and sacred nature of written word through large scale textile installations. Her work draws on Persian poetry, gestural calligraphy and carries notions of magic realism. Bibi’s installations are dyed in Blue, rooting in the celestial symbolism of Lapis Lazuli pigments in Persian culture, installed as free floating elements. The mysterious un-readable calligraphic marks on the surface of cotton voile creates a suspension of reality in which the viewer is immersed.

Bibi’s forms become choreographic drawings within space, stripped back to the calligraphy mark intertwined within the space surrounding it; the mark and the space, the body and the breath.