Resonant Turns: Hadieh Shafie

The Mine presents Resonant Turns, a solo exhibition by Iranian artist Hadieh Shafie, exploring the materiality of language, repetition, and movement.

Expanding beyond traditional mark-making, Shafie transforms paper into sculptural forms that shift between stillness and vibration, containment and release. At the heart of Shafie’s work lies a deep commitment to rhythm and process. Her practice relies on the layering of handwritten and printed Farsi text, disrupted by precise cuts and rotations to create optical compositions that transcend linguistic barriers. Her sculptural scrolls and cascading book forms reimagine storytelling as fluid and cyclical, revealing fragments of poetry and memory.

Oscillating between order and disruption, Resonant Turns invites viewers into a sensory dialogue where language, space, and motion converge in a singular, immersive experience.

About the Artist

Hadieh Shafie, born in 1969, is an Iranian-born visual artist based in the United States. Collapsing the space between drawing, painting, and sculpture, her practice is at once process-oriented and overwhelming in its intricacy. Shafie’s work is in many public collections, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Victoria and Albert Museum; Bank of America, Corporation Collection; Art in Embassies, and Public Collection in Dubai, UAE. Her series of text-based color pencil drawing works in this exhibition explore the interplay of forms and patterns and the use of semantics as a way to interrogate visual meaning in both personal and political domains. Her approach to her works is evocative of sound waves, ripples, and dances, speaking to the exhibition’s vision of a vision of transience as a trance.