Storytellers: Mona Cliff, Sanaz Haghani & Ato Ribeiro Curated by Abigail Justin & Jacob O’Kelley of ShowerHaus (Copy)

Storyteller: Mona Cliff, Sanaz Haghani, and Ato Ribeiro

Curated by Jacob O’Kelley and Abigail Justman of ShowerHaus

The Swan Coach House Gallery is pleased to present Storyteller, an exhibition of sculpture and installation by Georgia-based artists Sanaz Haghani and Ato Ribeiro, and Kansas-based artist Mona Cliff. The exhibition is curated by Jacob O’Kelley and Abigail Justman of ShowerHaus, an Atlanta-based curatorial team.

Weaving together lived experiences through cultural symbolism, each artist constructs works that investigate self-expression, identity, and future possibilities. Influenced by their mutual backgrounds in printmaking, each artist embraces a labor-intensive, process-based studio practice. Leaning into the journey of past lives and reflecting upon collective memory, the artists’ stories intuitively unravel new narratives creating through lines to themselves, their surroundings, and their invaluable communities.

Traversing across various complex histories, Ribeiro’s intricately patterned wooden tiles, Cliff’s meticulously beaded landscapes, and Haghani’s heavily inked draping monoprints evoke curiosity; the onlooker is inspired to invest time to thoroughly explore the messages, meanings, and decisions made by the artists. Storyteller begs the question: Do we continue down the path designed for us, or do we pivot into a future where we learn from, celebrate, and uplift communities that we have continued to neglect?