Soli Kiani’s Sculptural Paintings are closely connected with her work on canvas in which she painstakingly depicts draped pieces of fabric to highlight the role of women in Iran and to draw attention to the country’s social and cultural structures. Soli Kiani’s Cloth Sculptures consist of dyed pieces of linen dipped in paste to hold their shape. The way the cloth is draped is a synonym for concealment and identity, and its dignity indicates certain analogies with heights and depths, the visible and the invisible, the dignified and the suppressed as well as light and darkness.

— Magdalena Koschat