"Between Then and Now"

Maryam Majd Art Projects (MMAP) in collaboration with Vali Gallery presents Between Then and Now, a process-based exhibition by Azine Nouban that re-engages two formative bodies of work from her three-decade practice, examining how the artist’s visual language, conceptual concerns, and personal history have evolved across time and context.

Between Then and Now brings together works from different stages of Azine Nouban’s artistic trajectory to explore how past ideas can be reactivated, reinterpreted, and transformed through a contemporary curatorial approach. The exhibition reflects MMAP’s ongoing interest in examining archival materials, artistic memory, and the ways in which returning to earlier projects can reveal new meanings and positions.

In this exhibition, Azine Nouban revisits her earlier body of work to deepen and reinterpret ideas that have played significant roles in her career. This return, also, creates a dialogue between continuity and change and through this process, Nouban engages with themes of time, persistence, identity, and personal and collective memory. By bringing together works spanning thirty years, Between Then and Now highlights continuity, rupture, and the productive tensions between memory and transformation.

In this project, MMAP’s curatorial objective has been to demonstrate how a contemporary framework can activate an artist’s earlier visions. Rather than focusing on individual artworks as fixed objects, the exhibition positions them as markers in a longer creative journey. The show signals a renewed chapter in Nouban’s trajectory and affirms MMAP’s commitment to context-based, research-driven curatorial work.

.Azine Nouban (b. 1962, Tehran) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, and time-based media. Her practice explores ritual, memory, and the psychology of repetition. She has exhibited in Iran, France, and the United States