Dorsa Asadi, Outgang, 2024
Ceramics, Composed of 2 pcs
Installation dimensions: 75 x 35 x 35 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Outgang, 2024
Dorsa Asadi, Outgang (detail), 2024
Dorsa Asadi, Outgang (detail), 2024
Dorsa Asadi, The vomiting lady, 2021
Ceramics, 65 x 40 x 40 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The vomiting lady, 2021
Dorsa Asadi, “A sinner’s flesh should have an Immersion baptism,” Belle said, 2022
Ceramics, Composed of 7 pieces
Approx. Installation dimension: 50 x 60 x 28 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Sinnerman, you oughta be prayin', 2022
Ceramics, Composed of 3 pieces
Approx. Installation dimension: 42 x 25 x 37 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Bending Sinnerman offering his burning flesh to Elle and Belle, 2022
Ceramics, Composed of 4 pieces
Approx. Installation dimension: 44 x 40 x 30 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Flames of rebellion will wash your sins away, 2022
Ceramics, Composed of 2 pieces
Approx. Installation size: 44 x 28 x 24 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The smell of burning flesh, 2022
Ceramics, Composed of 5 pieces
Approx. Installation dimension: 46 x 39 x 23 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Fructifying Chenar (plane tree) with the strange fruit at the wrong time of Autumn, 2023
Ceramics, 40 x 16 x 17 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Elle and Belle purify the Sinnermen with their blood and tears, 2023
Ceramics, Composed of 5 pieces
Approx. Installation dimension: 60 x 60 x 30 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Elle and Belle purify the Sinnermen with their blood and tears (detail), 2023
Dorsa Asadi, Nargis(narcissus) stares at the blooming Sugarman while passing the heaven’s door, 2023
Ceramics, Composed of two pieces
Approx. Installation dimensions: 44 x 35 x 34 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The resurrection of Elle and Belle, 2023
Ceramics, Composed of 2 pieces
Approx. Installation dimension: 16 x 37 x 34 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Elle and Belle bathing in the pools of Paradiso, 2023
Ceramics, 31 x 28 x 28 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Take me to the river, 2023
Ceramics, 22 x 18 x 40 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The queen with closed eyes, 2020-2022
Ceramics, 35 x 35 x 100 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The queen with closed eyes (detail), 2020-2022
Dorsa Asadi, Killing the sinner man, 2021
Ceramics, 40 x 40 x 130 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The neutral witnesses getting baked over the steam, 2022
Ceramics, 70 x 70 x 100 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The neutral witnesses getting baked over the steam (detail), 2022
Dorsa Asadi, Sinnerman where you gonna run to? (Based on a song by Nina Simone), 2021
Ceramics, 50 x 50 x 110 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The reverse fire, 2021
Ceramics, 25 x 25 x 35 cm
Dorsa Asadi, The red rose searching for its last victim, 2021
Ceramics, 40 x 40 x 60 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Genesis of the sugarman, 2021
Ceramics, 46 x 40x 20 cm
Dorsa Asadi, A true lovestory, 2021
Ceramics, 23 x 15 x 10 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Elle waiting for the volcano eruption, 2019
Ceramics, 45 x 35 x 35 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Elle waiting for the volcano eruption (detail), 2019
Dorsa Asadi, Awakening after thunder (Elle), 2019
Ceramics, 30 x 25 x 20 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Animals of the underground (all of them), 2018
Ceramics, 20 x 20 x 20 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Arrival, 2016
Ceramics, 35 x 30 x 30 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Ecstasy, 2015
Ceramics, 25 x 25 x 20 cm
Dorsa Asadi, Bending Sinnerman offering his burning flesh to Elle and Belle, 2022
Dorsa Asadi’s ceramic sculptures combine local references, such as the aesthetics of colorful Iranian paintings and tiles, with contemporary subject matter such as gender, identity, environmental issues, and narratives that have shaped paradigms throughout history. She fabricates myths based on frequent motives in mythology across the world, for instance, the duality and superpowers of twins, fertility, sacrifice, and death, in order to make her narrative installations.
Portrait of Dorsa Asadi
Born in 1992 in Tehran, Iran, Asadi obtained her MA in Painting (2018) and BA in Handicrafts (with a concentration on Ceramics) (2014) from the University of Tehran. She had her Residency at Helikon Art Center, Turkey (2019) and at Vayu Art and Mind Residency, Kashan, Iran (2022).
Solo exhibition include Strange Fruit, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2023); Balneum Mariae, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2022); and Elle and Belle a Tale with No Rise and Fall, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2019). Selected group exhibitions include: The Symposium of Tales, Maryam Art Gallery, Kashan, Iran (2022); A room of one’s own, Soo Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2022); Shabtaab, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2021); Temple/Garden, Mohsen Projects, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2020); One of a thousand, Hakim Elahi Art Gallery, Rasht, Iran (2019); Soratan, Homa Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2019); Art for Peace Festival, Pardis Mellat Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2018); At the Limen of a Forged world, Laleh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2017) and A few credible stories, Araan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2017) among others.
She lives and works in Tehran.
A review of Dorsa Asadi's solo exhibition at Green Art Gallery, Dubai.
Drawing influences from the Divine Comedy and US anti-racist anthems, Dorsa Asadi’s Strange Fruit at Dubai’s Green Art Gallery serves up a fiery indictment of patriarchal oppression.
Nirmala Devi reviews Dorsa Asadi's solo exhibition Strange Fruit.
