“Echo’s Chamber” by Ned Carter Miles

ArtAsiaPacific

Afruz Amighi is a New Yorker like Calder (at heart if not by birth, having grown up in the Big Apple after she was born in Iran), and creates sculptures whose lines and shadows culminate in evocative figures that, refreshingly, speak directly of their subjects without the need for explanation. The artist has concentrated on architectural forms in past works, conveying the essence of a mosque or cathedral in the shadows of only a few simple shapes. In “Echo’s Chamber,” her exhibition at London’s Sophia Contemporary gallery, however, Amighi’s focus was on more human figures, though with no less of a monumental sense.