High Noon is pleased to present The Eighth Veil, the gallery’s third exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Fatemeh Burnes. The title draws  from Salomé, in which Oscar Wilde invokes the seventh veil as the final unveiling of truth in human character. In Burnes’s interpretation, how ever, there is another layer beyond this threshold. The eighth veil points to what has become most urgent in her work. As she states, “Beyond  the complexity of human character— the ways we construct, destroy, rebuild, and contradict ourselves— the deeper revelation is the absence of  compassion. That absence, once uncovered, becomes the most significant truth.”