ARGHAVAN
KHOSRAVI
Process,
Power,
and
Contradiction
"I realized that I'm not good at coming up with ideas when I look at a blank canvas
and my imagination is more um activated and I'm more creative when I'm in a reactionary mode."
– Arghavan Khosravi
"I realized that I'm not good at coming up with ideas when I look at a blank canvas and my imagination is more um activated and I'm more creative when I'm in a reactionary mode." – Arghavan Khosravi
Standing among her own work at KÖNIG GALERIE, the Iranian-born, US-based artist Arghavan Khosravi explains where her creative process begins: not with an image, but with a mood, a memory or a feeling that she cannot yet articulate. She then moves through Persian miniatures, Renaissance painting, fashion photography and the endless scroll of the news feed, letting fragments collide until an idea takes shape. What starts as a sketch grows into panels, structures and suspended forms—paintings that step off the wall into architectural space.
As she walks past her own works, Khosravi speaks about the women who populate them: figures caught between opposing forces who refuse victimhood and hold on to calmness and agency, even inside images built on contradiction.
