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Nuit Blanche Regina 2025:Mahdi Mahdian
Neutral Ground Window Gallery
Saturday | August 30, 2025 | 8-11:30pm
Presented in partnership with Nuit Blanche Regina
This window installation reflects on displacement, memory, and the emotional fragments of home. At its centre, an empty white clothes rack stands as a symbol of absence. Behind it, three oil paintings lean quietly: a bundle of scattered clothes under a starry sky, two sealed boxes in a moonlit field, and a row of winter coats—each evoking what is left behind, what is stored, and what is missing.
Above and around the space, irregular threads hold small photographs clipped with clothespins. These images were sent to the artist by friends in Ukraine, documenting the scattered contents of his former home and studio. From Canada, Mahdian was asked to choose—what to keep, what to let go, what still mattered.
Drawn from personal experience of exile from Iran to Ukraine and then to Canada, the work becomes a quiet archive of survival, shaped by absence and the shifting boundaries of what we call “home.”
Mahdi Mahdian is an Iranian-born visual artist. Trained in Iran, Ukraine, and Canada, his work blends classical figurative painting with contemporary concerns. His recent MFA from the University of Regina deepened his focus on self-portraiture, memory, and displacement through expressive, conceptually driven installations and paintings.
Image: Mahdi Mahdian, The Desert’s Wardrobe, Oil on Canvas, 24″ x 36″, 2025
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1835 Scarth St., Regina, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S4P 2G9
