Sara Rahmanian (b.1993, Tehran, Iran) is an artist fascinated by everyday objects and the bitter satire of contemporary life. She uses painting to explore the imaginative gaps between reality and perception and how the contradictions can open up an opportunity for transition. Rahmanian’s work suggests that the migration experience can queer concepts of gender, imagination and ideas of the home. Her paintings draw from first-person perspectives, defamiliarizing the mundane to invite a heightened sense of contemplation about her surroundings. Using both canvas and non-traditional surfaces, painting has become her go-to medium for playing hide and seek with objects, but more often than not, the process surprises her. She graduated from Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2021 and her works have been shown in solo and group shows in Iran, UAE, Italy and the United States.