Ketchup Drool: NAZGOL ANSARINIA

Nazgol Ansarinia examines the systems and networks that underwrite her daily life. Born and raised in Tehran, she dissects, interrogates and recasts everyday objects and events to draw out their relationships to the contemporary Iranian experience. She reveals the inner workings of a social system by taking apart its components before reassembling them to uncover collective assumptions and their underlying rules of engagement.

Her work is characterised by an emphasis on research and analysis that is a legacy of her design background, as well as by her continued engagement with critical theory. Her mode of working covers diverse media—video, 3D printed models, municipal murals and drawings—and subjects as varied as automated telephone systems, American security policy, the memories associated with a family house, and the patterns of Persian carpets.

In the pictures:
Nazgol Ansarinia, Rhyme & Reason, 2009
Hand woven wool, silk and cotton, 360 x 252 cm

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Nazgol Ansarinia, Mendings (mattress), 2012, mattress, see-through thread, 180 x 54 x 23 cm
Nazgol Ansarinia, Mendings (carpet), 2010, Mixed media, 195 x 95 cm
Nazgol Ansarinia, Mendings (plates), 2012, china plates, glue, size variable
Nazgol Ansarinia, Mendings (grey chair), 2012, wooden chair, glue, 44 x 41 x 95 cm

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Nazgol Ansarinia, Reflections/Refractions, 2012

Daily Production of Gasoline rises by 10 million / Production of Gasoline in Iran increases by 10 million per day

Nazgol Ansarinia, Reflections/Refractions, 2012

Enemies Should Know that Syria Will Never Fall- Assad / Syria Will Never Fall- Assad

Nazgol Ansarinia, Reflections/Refractions, 2012

4 March 2012, pp. 18 & 19.

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Nazgol Ansarinia: Riffing off a vernacular mural tradition, on artist captures the contrasts and contradictions of life in contemporary Tehran by Maria Lind on ArtReview Asia, summer 2016 

In the pictures:
Nazgol Ansarinia, Fabrications, 2013. In collaboration with Roozbeh Elias-Azar. Residential building – belvedere & garden on Resalat highway.

Nazgol Ansarinia, Fabrications, 2013. In collaboration with Roozbeh Elias-Azar. Residential apartments – water reserve & wind towers on Sayad highway.

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Nazgol Ansarinia @ Artissima
Section: Present Future
Galleries: Raffaella Cortese, Milano + Green Art, Dubai

Biography: Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979) is an artist who lives and works in Tehran, Iran. She graduated from the London College of Communication in 2001 before taking a Master of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco in 2003. Ansarinia has exhibited internationally, most recently participating in the Iran Inside Out exhibition at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, in 2009. She was awarded the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in March 2009.