Through the Carpet by Sahel Khalilnejad Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 100 x 150 cm Year: 2026 Price: $2000.00 USD Status: available A traditional carpet stretches across the canvas, opening at its center to reveal a group of horses moving through the composition. Decorative saddlebags inspired by historic Persian designs add a sense of travel and movement to the scene. Why collect this work?Dense ornament stops around a broad, pale opening, making absence rather than pattern the painting’s principal device for picturing cultural transmission as partial and unsettled. In her statement, Khalilnejad describes Persian carpet motifs as a vocabulary for heritage and memory. That intention clarifies the carpet image here without determining its effect.In the photograph, floral borders surround overlapping horses drawn mostly in outline. Their sparse bodies cross the beige centre as the upper and lower ornament frays into vertical marks.The catalogue identifies oil on canvas at 100 by 150 centimetres. A single painted surface can therefore hold simulated textile density beside exposed-looking ground and economical line.The work is compelling for its refusal to present inheritance as a complete decorative system. Its broken field places continuity and interruption within the same image. 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.
