The gallery, Fouladi Projects locates at the entrance of Catro, the south west of San Francisco downtown. Attractive restaurants and colorful shops are coming into the eyes. Wide Market street allows the sunshine enters through the glass wall to the gallery, and it is a comfortable space.

“Art is an essential component of living a full life. It provokes us to see things afresh, exalts our senses and connects us to each other and the world in which we live.” The founders of the gallery, Holy Fouladi and Hoe Bryson introduce contemporary fine art. They carefully curate paintings, drawings, photographies, sculptures, and installations, and mediate the roles of art with those.

This summer, the gallery shows photo exhibition by 3 women photographers. The works in the show vary in content, but all investigate the human issues of isolation, containment and longing. Inherent in our existence is the need to balance the conundrum between being an individual, physically separate, yet also requiring a vital connection to others to thrive.

Darija Jelincic  “Escapes 1”, edition of 10

“Escape” project by Darija Jelincic, who is from Zagreb, Croatia started from searching for moments of tranquility in our daily life. Leaving the stressful city life in Prague, she decided to depart for Lesbos, Greece in the last minutes. Blue sky and vast ocean. Nothing exists between calm straight horizon and her. She finds herself in the huge space. It made her think about how trapped we all are in our constructed realities of urban contents, where rye struggle for success makes us disconnected from nature, and in consequence from ourselves. After leaving the island, Darija started exploring the ways humans search for solutions to the problems that urban contrived spaces create.

Darija Jelincic  “Escapes 4”, edition of 10

Darija composes her photographs carefully, usually placing her subjects in the center, capturing their relationship with their surroundings. She examines them through their experience of the space.

Escape is an exploration about the human experience, about our state of mind during those moments of tranquility, but also physical aspect of it – like in a photograph of a fairground ride. We look up at the sky and see people comfortably sitting on the ride, spinning gently in space, with nothing above them but blue sky.