Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to present Hayv Kahraman’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Libations, on view through March 21st, 2026. Marking Kahraman’s first exhibition in Los Angeles since her displacement resulting from the 2025 Eaton Fire in Altadena, the artist’s newest body of work responds to an urgent question precipitated by the catastrophic events of the past year: What does one do when the world collapses? The works attempt to make sense of her experience of the fire and its enduring aftermath, while continuing her exploration of the poetics of loss, displacement, and migration. Kahraman views these works as an offering, a libation, to a burning world. The paintings invoke divination, ritual, and magic, not only in the dreamlike…
