YZ Kami: Paintings review – making visible the invisible

Gagosian Gallery, London
The Iranian artist strives to depict the inner lives of his subjects in portraits that are as modest as they are monumentalThe portrait shows the head of a young man with dark hair, pronounced eyebrows and olive-toned skin. The neck of his T-shirt is partially visible. There is a certain fullness about the mouth and a crew-cut neatness to his hair, but beyond these scant facts almost nothing more of him is explicitly described, even though the image amounts to an enormou