BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
The tHERApy room 2 exhibition at the Corey Helford Gallery features the solo work of graffiti and street artist Hera (aka Jasmin Siddiqui), one-half of the HERAKUT duo from Germany before they both went on their separate ways. Combining her illustrator, poet, storyteller, and graffiti artist skills, Hera creates fluid figures with elegant and chaotic lines and brushstrokes – and empathy. Her work often reflects on the human condition, relationships, deeply stirring emotions, and experiences of childhood. The accompanying text is clarifying; her characters display hope, magic, and a drive toward escapism.
This new series is reminiscent of her 16-year collaboration with Falk Lehmann, with whom she exhibited in galleries and art fairs worldwide and created over 100 public murals.
Describing her 23-year route forward, her painting partnership with Falk, and the recurring themes and style that persists into this third decade, Hera says that her self-analysis with paint in public places and on canvas has been healing.
“If you will, you could see each piece as a therapy session, where the therapist would be Hera wielding brush and spray paint, and the patient would be Jasmin, the woman underneath the animal metaphor hats and masks,” she says. “Describing my artwork that way makes it seem as if I had never stopped working in a duo. Can this sound schizophrenic and wholesome at the same time?”
OPENING RECEPTION
April 22, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
ON VIEW
April 22 – May 27, 2023
COREY HELFORD GALLERY
571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033
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