Infinite love by Sahel Khalilnejad
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 110 x 150 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $3300.00 USD
Status: available
This contemporary oil painting brings together the visual richness of traditional carpet motifs with a playful and vibrant expression of love. The word “Love” appears three times across the composition, each in a distinct, fantastical color, creating a striking contrast against the traditional carpet inspired background. The work explores the meeting point between heritage and contemporary expression. The familiar language of the carpet is transformed through unexpected color, repetition, and expressive texture, creating a visual dialogue between the traditional and the modern. Rich layers of oil paint and pronounced surface texture add depth and dimension to the work, inviting the viewer to experience both its decorative beauty and its contemporary character.
Why collect this work?
Three enlarged renderings of the Arabic word حب, meaning “love,” interrupt a densely patterned carpet field, turning repetition into a contest between legible statement and ornamental structure.
- Khalilnejad describes her practice as reinterpreting Persian carpet design through contemporary painting. Here, inherited pattern serves not as backdrop alone but as an active visual language.
- In the photograph, each calligraphic form stretches horizontally and casts a contrasting painted edge. Their descending sequence imposes a bold rhythm on the smaller floral motifs.
- The documented oil-on-canvas medium permits opaque blocks of colour beside intricate patterning. That contrast makes the script appear layered over the carpet-like image, although physical relief cannot be confirmed from the photograph.
- This 2025 painting provides a focused case for considering how Arabic script can operate simultaneously as readable language, repeated image, and intervention within a textile-derived visual order.
About the Artist
Sahel Khalilnejad
Sahel Khalilnejad is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Nationality: Iranian
My work explores the relationship between cultural heritage, memory, and contemporary visual expression.
