Mexico 2026

Booth: EJ17

Artist: Daria Usova, Vahid Sharifian


At the booth, you can see a dialogue between two artistic universes, in which the ironic philosophy of form and the metaphysical poetics of consciousness converge in a single space of experience. Here, “Papa'ism” meets with its bold, almost mythological play with the image of the father archetype and the practice of metaphysical collage as a technology of inner transformation.
Vahid Sharifian is an artist on the international scene whose exhibitions have been held in institutional spaces such as the Venice Biennale and world-class galleries, and whose work has been discussed in ARTnews, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Art in America. His authorial concept of “Papa'ism” is both an artistic language and a critical tool: through grotesque imagery and symbolism, he exposes the mechanisms of power behind images and collective myths.
Daria Usova is the official artist of the Principality of Monaco, working in Monte Carlo, who explores subconscious and symbolic thinking. Her patented Pieces Art technique transforms thousands of fragments of gloss into multi-layered portal compositions, where the visual becomes a practice of internal navigation. This is not just a collage, but a “visual technology” — a space of transition between experience, memory, and intuition.
The joint booth presentation charts a route from external irony to internal silence, from the social to the ontological. Here, the image is not an illustration but an event; not decoration but a driver of meaning. The viewer is invited not to “look” but to enter: into the rhythm, into the image, into their own question. And once there, to find their own answer.