Nazgol Ansarinia
For our Liste 2019 presentation we were inspired by the readings of “Invisible Cities” a seminal book by the Italian writer Italo Calvino in 1972; a travelogue to places that do not exist. Through the works of Nazgol Ansarinia ( b. 1979, lives and work in Tehran), Hera Büyüktaşçıyan ( b. 1984, lives and works in Istanbul) and Maryam Hoseini ( b. 1988, lives and works in New York), the presentation is a vivid recollection of cites and places, their curiosities and their social order. From Ansarinia’s miniature ceramic brick sculptures to Büyüktaşçıyan's, drawings and bronze “thread” sculptures, and Hoseini’s small-scale works of ink, acrylic, and pencil on panel, we aim to portray what Polo says when describing the city of Tamara: “the eye does not see things but images of things that mean other things.”
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Studies On Threads and Frequencies, 2019
Gold leaf on photographic paper, 21 x 30 cm (each)
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Studies On Threads and Frequencies (detail), 2019
Gold leaf on photographic paper
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Geodetic Threads Vol. I, 2019
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Geodetic Threads Vol. I (detail), 2019
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Drawing the line, Remembering the rope, 2019
Bronze, pine wood, Dimensions variable
Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Drawing the line, Remembering the rope, 2019
Bronze, pine wood, Dimensions variable
Nazgol Ansarinia, Attempts at building a wall, 2019
Glazed ceramic
Nazgol Ansarinia, Attempts at building a wall, 2019
Glazed ceramic
Nazgol Ansarinia, Attempts at building a wall, 2019
Glazed ceramic
Nazgol Ansarinia, Attempts at building a wall, 2019
Glazed ceramic
Nazgol Ansarinia, Attempts at building a wall, 2019
Glazed ceramic
Nazgol Ansarinia, Attempts at building a wall, 2019
Glazed ceramic
