Hadi Fallahpisheh, Getting Closer, 2022, C-print, quilt, 90 × 82".

In a little house at the end of a long, winding path live four friends: Cat, Dog, Mouse, and Human. They play games, throw dinner parties, and frolic precariously near cactus plants bristling with gnarly, jagged thorns. These characters inhabited each of the five large canvases in Hadi Fallahpisheh’s “Getting Closer.” From a distance, the cartoonlike tableaux resembled paintings, or perhaps the nervous etchings of a reclusive lunatic. Actually, they were photographs—cameraless ones. Fallahpisheh spends hours in the darkroom burning playful illustrations and moiré-like patterns onto giant sheets

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