Upcoming Exhibition
A Room for Different Worlds
Artists: Sasan Abri · Ghasemi Brothers · Gohar Dashti · Soudeh Davoud · Farbod Elkaei · Nora Gabbai · Sina Ghadakzad · Anali Taherian · Ardeshir Tabrizi · Farzad Kohen · Sheila Karbassian · Mahsa Merci · Milad Mousavi · Mobina Nouri · Samira Nowparast · Mehregan Pezeshki · Golnaz Payani · Ghazal Rahimi · Melika Shafahi · Shilan Shakoori · Nicollet Mishkan · Sara Janti · Negar Zonoobi · Haniko Zahra . Sheng Lor
October 17 – November 7, 2026
Aabee Bleue Project presents A Room for Different Worlds, a group exhibition bringing together 24 artists, most of whom are based in Los Angeles and with whom we have personal relationships. The exhibition grew from our relationships with these artists and from our interest in spending more time with their practices and understanding their work beyond the gallery.
Over the past months, we made time to revisit their studios, meet with the artists, and learn more about their processes and the different bodies of work they have developed. From these visits, we selected one to several works by each artist, including some recent works and others from different series within their practices.
As the selection came together, we began to notice unexpected connections between the works. Landscape, flora, portraiture, and abstraction appear throughout the exhibition, but each artist approaches these subjects through their own visual language. Some works remain connected to recognizable forms, while others move toward abstraction, allowing very different ways of seeing to exist next to one another.
The title A Room for Different Worlds comes from this experience. Each artist brings their own world into the room, and we are curious about what happens when these different worlds simply stay next to one another. The installation developed through conversations with the artists, as well as with a few friends and collectors, and through moving the works around until the room began to feel right. There is no strict theme or fixed framework; the relationships between the works are allowed to develop naturally.
The exhibition will remain intentionally open and evolving until the opening. As we install, we continue to encounter artists and works that we feel belong in the room. We want to keep the possibility open to include additional artists until the day of the opening, allowing us to bring together as many of these individual worlds as possible and to see the stories they create when placed together.
In this sense, A Room for Different Worlds is a gathering of artists, ideas, and ways of seeing—a room where different worlds can exist together while remaining entirely their own.
A Room for Different Worlds opens October 17, 2026, and remains on view through November 7, 2026, at Aabee Bleue Project in Los Angeles.
Current Exhibition
Whispers: Women, Animals and Chimeras - Gallery One
Elika Hedayat
September 26 – October 24, 2026
Aabee Bleue Project is pleased to present Whispers: Women, Animals and Chimeras, a solo exhibition by Elika Hedayat. The exhibition will be on view from September 26 through October 24, 2026, at Aabee Bleue Project in Los Angeles.
What if mythology could be retold through those who have remained at its margins? What if women, animals, and hybrid creatures became the protagonists of histories that have long centered heroes, kings, and conquerors?
In Whispers: Women, Animals and Chimeras, Elika Hedayat presents a new body of work that draws from Persian mythology, feminist thought, and speculative imagination. Moving between memory, history, and fiction, the exhibition revisits narratives from the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) through a contemporary lens, shifting attention toward figures that have often occupied secondary roles within traditional accounts.
Women, animals, and chimerical beings emerge throughout the exhibition as active agents rather than symbolic accessories. Their bodies transform, merge, and evolve, inhabiting spaces where the boundaries between human, animal, and mythical life become fluid. Through these shifting forms, Hedayat constructs alternative narratives that challenge established hierarchies and invite new ways of imagining relationships between power, identity, and the natural world.
Alongside these works, the exhibition includes paintings from Haroum, an ongoing series inspired by mythology as well as feminist and ecological science fiction. Drawing on literary references to Haroum, a legendary city governed by learned women living in harmony with their environment, Hedayat envisions an embryonic world in formation: a speculative landscape where coexistence, transformation, and collective imagination shape new possibilities for the future.
Blending historical references with contemporary realities, Hedayat's works move between documentary traces and dreamlike invention. Reality, memory, and imagination intertwine to create narratives that are at once deeply personal and broadly political, connecting ancient stories to present-day questions surrounding gender, ecology, and the social fabric of the region.
Rather than reconstructing the past, Whispers: Women, Animals and Chimeras opens a space where myth becomes a living language through which forgotten voices, alternative futures, and new forms of belonging can emerge.