Canvas

Most of the works presented in Venice cannot be attributed to a particular aspect of Iranian culture; they reflect a contemporary language that belongs to a global art context. This does not, however, exclude a preoccupied locale, as with Nazgol Ansarinia's works addressing urban fabric and transformation. Membrane is erected like the skin of a wall, in a comment on the indiscriminate destruction of houses in Tehran's rapidly developing urban areas, while the series Pillars runs like a bifurcated river of marble-like columns across the central hall, a reference to gentification and a rapidly changing society of extravagance.