Povos Gallery Announces Two-Person Presentation at EXPO CHICAGO 2025 Featuring Ashkon Haidari and Angela Ferrari.
Booth 212
April 24–27, 2025 | Navy Pier, Chicago
Povos Gallery is pleased to announce its return to EXPO CHICAGO with a two-person presentation of new works by Angela Ferrari and Ashkon Haidari. This pairing brings together two artists whose painterly vocabularies trace the intersections of myth, memory, and metamorphosis through deeply personal, allegorical practices.
Ashkon Haidari (b. 1991, Chicago), a Povos-represented artist, debuts a newly evolved body of work shaped by time spent in Venice for the 2024 Biennale, New York, and his hometown of Chicago. Interweaving everyday urban imagery—an 8 ball, a yellow taxi—with 12th-century Persian poetry and references to his cultural heritage, Haidari’s latest paintings are lyrical meditations on identity, dislocation, and belonging. His application of paint, looser and more intuitive than ever before, explores the slippages between place and self with renewed freedom and vulnerability.
Angela Ferrari (b. 1990, Argentina) makes her U.S. art fair debut with lush, immersive paintings that draw on medieval tapestry, New Deal muralism, and the Flemish Baroque. Self-described as “Grotesque-Passionate Baroque,” her works stage charged encounters between plant, animal, and human bodies in moments where sleep and wakefulness, sensuality and allegory, coexist. Ferrari’s work merges sociopolitical allegory with sensual immersion, offering richly layered compositions that invite viewers into an erotically charged natural order where boundaries blur and bodies metamorphose.
Together, the works of Ferrari and Haidari investigate inherited and imagined histories that shape how we move through and view the world. This presentation offers an opportunity to see their distinct yet resonant practices in dialogue, each pushing the boundaries of figurative painting into emotionally and symbolically charged terrain. Haidari is a Povos-represented artist. Ferrari will make her solo exhibition debut with the gallery in November.
