Playground by Sahel Khalilnejad Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 150 x 150 cm Year: 2024 Price: $1400.00 USD Status: available A Polonaise carpet and a child’s ride-on toy car come together in a dark, aged interior, creating an unexpected contrast. Why collect this work?In Playground, a child’s ride-on car occupies the patterned carpet like a compact monument, turning play into a meeting point between inherited visual culture and the present. Khalilnejad states that her practice reinterprets Persian carpet design to consider heritage and memory. Here, that concern is focused through an ordinary object associated with childhood.The photograph shows the pale car sharply isolated against a dark interior and densely patterned rug. Its oversized white wheels interrupt the carpet’s intricate field, making movement appear possible yet suspended.The documented oil-on-canvas medium permits gradual tonal transitions across the dim architecture while maintaining crisp boundaries around the car. This contrast gives the toy an almost emblematic clarity.The catalogue identifies the textile as a Polonaise carpet. The painting is especially pertinent where heritage is considered as an active ground for contemporary life, rather than as a sealed historical remnant. About the ArtistSahel 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.
