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Sissi Farassat: Revelation

Forthcoming exhibition
2 September - 18 October 2025
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Sissi Farassat Cyd, 2025 Gelatin silver print with overmat 10 1/16 x 7 7/8 inches (25.5 x 20 cm)
Sissi Farassat
Cyd, 2025
Gelatin silver print with overmat
10 1/16 x 7 7/8 inches (25.5 x 20 cm)
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Opening reception with the artist: Thursday, September 18, 5-7pm

 

Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce Revelation, a new body of work by Vienna-based artist Sissi Farassat, on view from 2 September through 18 October 2025.

 

In Revelation, Farassat reframes the past. Working from anonymous vintage photographs — often touched by the glamour of Hollywood’s Golden Era — she reveals only a carefully selected fragment of each image. The rest is concealed behind a precisely cut overmat, a process art historian Michel Poivert has described as anti-collage. He writes:

 

“For those familiar with Sissi Farassat's work, Revelation is above all a surprise… The desired object reveals itself only through concealment… What we don't see takes center stage. What is primarily addressed here is the off-screen as a space that is both real and imaginary.”

 

Where collage builds through accumulation, Farassat works by subtraction. What remains visible becomes charged with the tension of the unseen. The gesture resists the completeness of the found photograph, creating space for ambiguity, speculation, and invention.

 

Many of the source images are vernacular portraits of women, shaped both by the conventions of their historical moment and by the sitter’s own self‑presentation. Farassat’s curated windows disrupt these conventions, setting aside the fiction of the whole portrait. In doing so, she transforms the hint of mystery present in each image into its defining feature. What remains suggests more than it reveals, each portrait becoming a meeting place between what we see and what we imagine.

 

Sissi Farassat was born in Tehran, Iran in 1969 and moved to Vienna in 1978. Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, and is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Fotomuseum Winterthur; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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