Philipp Haas writes: “This is my room, this is my studio” it says in Perso-Arabic script on one of Roxana Manouchehri’s paintings from the “Feel the Expanse” series the Teheran-born artist is introducing to us in the present exhibition. The painting is showing a windowless, unfurnished, dimly neon-lit interior easily identifiable as the artist’s Korean studio in North Eastern Seoul’s Changdong district. Ironically the premises of the Changdong Art Studio where the artist is currently attending a 6-month residency programme prove an ideal setting for Manouchehri’s criticism of the sterile functionality western aesthetics have been obsessed with for almost a century >>> 12 next › last » 
