Works by Raha Raissnia are included in the group show There Is a Crack in Everything in the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brissels. It brings together more than twenty-five international artists whose practices intertwine emotion and form with questions of belonging, identity, and memory. From visible violence to imposed silences, from damages to life to the vulnerability of surrounding environments, these artists explore the human condition in its tensions as well as its possibilities, transforming these realities into imaginings of resistance, displacement, and reinvention.
The title of the exhibition, borrowed from Leonard Cohen—There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in—reminds us that every fracture carries within it both destruction and light: it suggests new ways of being in the world and relating to what surrounds us.
Raha Raissnia presents here her paintings and an immersive installation Solaria, composed of 35 mm slides combining reworked digital and analogue images. In the dark, projectors cast superimposed images that merge and fade in a continuous loop, revealing how inseparable light and shadow are. Raha Raissnia makes darkness the guiding thread of a work that explores time and perception. The black boxes, designed for each exhibition space, envelop viewers in a three-dimensional illusion. Fragmented images bring past, present, and future into collision in a blur evoking bones, X-rays, or reflections. Inspired by dystopian imaginaries, the artist uses projection to immerse viewers in a visual flow unfolding like a waking dream. The slides reveal a transformed reality, both concrete and abstract.
