Elnaz Javani selected for Art Central 2026 Central Stage. Elnaz Javani Represented by RARARES Gallery, has been selected for Art Central 2026 fair’s curatorial focus Central Stage.
Curated by Zoie Yung and Enoch Cheng, Central Stage highlights artists whose practices resonate within contemporary international discourse and recent institutional contexts.
Elnaz Javani, whose works deeply rooted in questions of embodiment, memory, displacement, and material vulnerability, continues to gain critical visibility, and this selection marks an important moment of recognition within the Hong Kong art landscape.

Art Central 2026
Opening March 25 , 2026
Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong

Born in Tehran and currently based in Colorado, Elnaz Javani is an Iranian-American artist and educator whose practice has been gradually captivating institutional and curatorial circuits across the Middle East, Europe, and the US. Working with textiles, sculpture, and installation, she constructs dense, layered forms through embroidery, stitching, dyeing, and assemblage. Her work treats textiles as spatial and sculptural objects rather than two-dimensional, with layering, perspective, and time shaping the conceptual framework, embedding questions of memory, displacement, and bodily experience in the material itself.