The Palimento exhibition, featuring more than 40 artworks by Behdad Najafi Asadollahi curated by Rosa Matinfar (Matin Art Platform), opened on Friday, December 19, 2025, from 4 PM to 8 PM at the Nian Art Gallery. ‌“Palimento” emerges from two interrelated concepts: palimpsest, a multilayered narrative in which the past never fully falls silent and continuously resurfaces through new strata; and pentimento, the painterly term describing the moment when an older layer an earlier decision reappears as aged pigments recede. Both notions insist on a simple yet profound truth: no artwork ever begins entirely anew. Everything we create stands upon traces of what has already been written. ‌As a multimedia archive, “Palimento” explores this very return and continuity. Developed over four years, the project treats the newspaper not as a vessel for news but as a historical medium. Here, its pages become a site where layers of time, politics, erasure, and emotional response are inscribed. Texts that once claimed to convey unfiltered truth are now obscured beneath paint, yet their remnants; the mastheads, logos, and page structures persist like murmurs rising from the depths of each piece. ‌The theoretical foundation of the project draws on the notion of the palimpsest, the scraped parchment that Gérard Genette expanded upon in his theory of intertextuality. In every work, the underlying layer is the official, mediated narrative; the upper layer—an abstract painting—becomes an emotional or interpretive response to that narrative. This proximity of surfaces generates an aesthetic uncertainty: can a single truth ever stand before us when something from the past continually emerges beneath the fresh layer of paint? ‌This sensibility materializes at the heart of the exhibition in the interactive installation “The Wall of Rewriting.” The viewer is pulled out of passive spectatorship and transformed into an active agent who reconstructs narrative through touch, marks, signs, and writing. On a wall covered with newspaper, each visitor records what they see and feel, an act echoing pentimento itself: a new layer settling atop an old one without fully concealing it. ‌Ultimately, “Palimento” poses a quiet yet unresolved question: amid the noise and turbulence of contemporary media, where does meaning truly arise? By covering text, the artworks create a form of deliberate silence, one dense with unheard voices, while the participatory installation turns that very silence into a “personal voice.” The exhibition becomes an invitation to see time, memory, and media as layered phenomena, where every color, every line, and every word is a trace of what has been and what is still being written. The path suggested here often leads to one conclusion: the viewer, too, becomes a contributor to the next layer. ‌The exhibition will be open for 10 days until December 29, 2025, excluding Saturdays, from 2 PM to 7 PM at the Nian Art Gallery for enthusiasts.