DENNY DIMIN GALLERY NEW YORK
Sheida Soleimani's “Iran Heavy” (2018), archival pigment print. Sheida Soleimani and Denny Dimin Gallery. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now Published Dec 9, 2020. In print Dec 11, p. C9. Sheida Soleimani Through Dec. 23, Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan; (212) 226-6537, dennydimingallery.com . You would be forgiven for thinking that Sheida Soleimani made the photographs in her exhibition “Hotbed” digitally. Collapsing space and subject matter into densely layered images of body parts, food, electronics and more, they’re informed by a certain internet aesthetic. But Ms. Soleimani’s artworks are analogue, compositions of items arranged in her studio. Their premise, then, is epistemological as much as formal: Much of what we think we know is a distortion or an illusion. Ms. Soleimani seeks to rectify that by using her practice to deepen viewers’ understanding of Iran, from which her parents escaped in the 1980s as political refugees. The realities of life