Mina Sarrafan

Mina Sarrafan draws the same kitchen table over and over, in graphite and colored pencil, working entirely from memory rather than a photograph or a live sitting. It's the table where three generations of her family have argued, cooked, and made up, and she draws it at different ages, different arguments, different meals — the objects on it shifting slightly each time depending on which memory she's working from. She keeps the linework loose and the color desaturated, so the drawings read as recollection rather than documentation. She works from a studio in the diaspora, drawing in series and releasing small groups of related pieces together rather than as single unconnected works.

Mina Sarrafan draws small, quiet domestic scenes from memory — the kitchen table where three generations of her family have argued, cooked, and made up.

Munich

She's mapping how one table holds decades of the same family's arguments and reconciliations.