New Forms, New Voices: Sarah Rabiee
Sarah Rabiee’s practice centres on the human figure as a vessel for quiet emotional states that define daily existence. Through figurative painting and drawing, she captures fleeting moments of rest, sleep, and intimacy, scrutinizing how the body retains memory, fatigue, and presence. Her work focuses on gestures that often go unnoticed; the heavy lean of a resting form, the suspended breath between motion and stillness. Executed primarily in oil, ink, and mixed media, her figures serve as sites where emotional and cultural experiences converge. Some works depict the tenderness and kinetic energy of childhood, while others render the body as fragile, heavy, or exposed.
These contrasting conditions reflect the trajectory of life, illustrating how personal memory intersects with broader social realities. Living between cultures, Rabiee infuses her work with questions of identity and belonging, treating painting as an act of empathetic observation. Her intimate scenes aim to transcend specific contexts, fostering a dialogue on shared human vulnerability and the profound resonance of ordinary life.
Sarah Rabiee (born 1992) is an Iranian visual artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus, specializing in figurative painting, drawing, and printmaking. She has exhibited internationally, including a solo show at Rustam Kitabevi Gallery in 2025 and group exhibitions in Saint Petersburg and Iran. In addition to her artistic practice, she curated the Iranian Contemporary Artists Printmaking Exhibition in 2024 and completed extensive training at the Ariush Academy in Tehran.
125 Space is proud to present New Forms, New Voices, a group exhibition showcasing the work of eleven emerging artists selected from a competitive open call that highlighted the vibrant and diverse talent currently shaping the local art scene.
As a platform committed to supporting emerging talent, 125 Space provides a professional context in which new artists can present their work and engage with collectors, curators, and the wider creative community. New Forms, New Voices reflects a dedicated interest in how these artists are redefining visual language through rigorous experimentation, material exploration, and critical engagement with contemporary conditions. While the selected works respond, both explicitly and intuitively, to urgent questions of identity, place, and cultural inheritance, they remain firmly open to broader global dialogues, demonstrating how new voices contribute to ongoing conversations within the international artistic community.
Exhibition opening
Friday, 5th of June 2026 at 18:00
Exhibition duration
6th of June – 18th of July 2026