We’re exploring the threads of culture and chaos in this week’s gallery picks.

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1. This latest series was motivated by Reza Derakshani’s return to his native country, where, disappointed by what he saw after decades living overseas, a commentary on the state of Iran today has manifested itself in “My Wicked Persian Carpet.” at Taymour Grahne
2. By blending physical reality and mental abstraction, José Gurvich gave life to a new and rich category of non-objective painting at Cecilia De Torres
3. In her work, Aiko Tezuka engages with the meaning of fabric, its cultural heritage, its designs, the origin of motifs and the globalized market of industrial productions.at Michael Janssen
4. New painting installations and video works by Shoja Azari that seamlessly intertwines myth with reality, quotation with intervention in order to examine the integral roles played by history and context in depictions of the Islamic world at Leila Heller Gallery
5. In Post-National Bliss, Carla Busuttil imagines and explores the rituals and conflicts of a fictional world perpetually on the brink of chaos at Goodman Gallery
6. Panic Room focuses on the destabilization of the human subject and problematizes
how we define ourselves in this digital and virtual age at UNIX Gallery