House of CoHit is pleased to present Thorns In Your Side, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Iranian-born artists Haniko Zahra and Affsoongar. This is the first time each artist is working with House of CoHit, and it marks Affsoongar’s first U.S. showing.
Affsoongar’s small-scale line drawings, rendered in a limited color palette, and Zahra’s larger oil-on-canvas paintings share a fascination with storytelling, symbolic imagery, and the complexities of interior life. Both artists build their visual universes from small, seemingly ordinary moments or materials, transforming them into charged, layered tableaux where humor, violence, and desire intermingle. While distinct in style and sensibility, both sets of work explore the tension between surface innocence and inner unease, crafting visual worlds fraught with vulnerability, danger, myth, and memory.
