House of CoHit is pleased to present "Thorns In Your Side," a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Iranian-born artists Haniko Zahra and Affsoongar, opening July 11th. Affsoongar’s small-scale line drawings, rendered in a limited color palette, and Zahra’s larger oil-on-canvas paintings share a fascination with storytelling, symbolic imagery, and the complexities of interior life. Both artists build their visual universes from small, seemingly ordinary moments or materials, transforming them into charged, layered tableaux where humor, violence, and desire intermingle. While distinct in style and sensibility, both sets of work explore the tension between surface innocence and inner unease, crafting visual worlds fraught with vulnerability, danger, myth, and memory. Both artists begin with a preliminary sketch that loosely lays out the composition; details, colors, and forms are allowed to emerge gradually as the work takes further shape. Their practices also share a quality of emotional excavation — turning inward to process the tensions of selfhood, femininity, and cultural memory, then offering the results as uneasy gifts to the viewer.