Sussan Farahani

AUTOLA is pleased to present an exhibition by Iranian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer Sussan Farahani. Working across multiple fields of photography, Farahani's practice is defined by an experimental approach that continually pushes the boundaries of the medium. Moving fluidly between analogue processes and conceptual image-making, her work challenges photography's conventional relationship to representation, embracing ambiguity, illusion, and transformation.

For this exhibition, Farahani presents three hand-printed fibre-based photographs that lean heavily into surrealism, inviting viewers to question perception and the reliability of the photographic image. Through unexpected juxtapositions, altered perspectives, and meticulously crafted darkroom techniques, the works occupy a space between the familiar and the uncanny, where reality appears suspended and visual certainty dissolves.

Rather than documenting the world as it is, Farahani's photographs construct new ways of seeing. The darkroom becomes a site of experimentation, where the physical processes of analogue photography are used to manipulate space, scale, and light, producing images that reward prolonged looking. Each print encourages an oblique encounter with the photograph, revealing how perception itself can be shaped, distorted, and reimagined.

With this presentation, AUTOLA highlights Farahani's commitment to expanding the expressive possibilities of photography, celebrating her practice that is at once technically rigorous, boundary-pushing, and deeply imaginative.