The IDB Staff Association Art Gallery presents LIGHT ARROW, a solo exhibition honoring the late artist Ariane Hafizi. This presentation gathers twenty-three artworks—predominantly works on paper—created throughout her artistic trajectory and deeply reflective life. Because Ariane rarely signed and never dated her pieces, the chronological sequence of this limited oeuvre was meticulously reconstructed by her mother, Carmen Marianovich. Relying on memory and maternal intuition, this archival effort successfully mapped the artist's creative evolution.
The Spanish art critic and curator José Ignacio Abeijón Giráldez shares his experience upon encountering Ariane's work and realizing that what remains is but a small, potent fraction of her prolific production:
"Amid this initial bewilderment, I was immediately struck by the force these works acquired once I laid hands on them. Surrounded in her studio by a set of works that Ariane's parents had recovered from her Brooklyn studio when she fell ill in 2012, I felt a great intensity of the sort evoked only by true works of art. The magnetism emitted by most of them, including the small-format pictures, captivated me from the very outset with their quality, personality, and profundity.