Dorsa Asadi, Claimant or frightened, will burn together baby, 2022
Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (1321), twins named Elle and Belle, traditional Iranian wrestling, the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh (second millennium bce), revolts against patriarchy in favour of the right to own your own body – such a disparate collection of source materials could only come together in an art exhibition. And more particularly in an exhibition made by Iranian artist Dorsa Asadi. Deploying a structure in three chapters that follows Dante’s epic poem, the artist – who works primarily in ceramics and installation, while exploring a range of other media –presents a series of small, diorama like ceramics that explore the complex fusion of the narratives above, where humans wander through natural scenes in which one body often melts into another.