Amir Nasiri – The 11th Persbook Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition

Amir Nasiri

Title: Nightmare Technique: Recycling, Assemblage / Installation Dimensions: Variable Year: 2021

When I was a child, there was war, fear, and death hovering over us. The nightmares began then, when the television showed images of the missing and static. I had a fever, and in my nightmares, a man in black sat in the corner of the room, asking me to count the multiplying black holes that covered everything.

Now, the nightmare continues on my body and the body of the city. This time we are fighting pollution and cancer. The black masses that cover and multiply on our bodies, leaving only an image of the world with these spreading stains.

I collect used motorcycle tubes and create numerous black cells from them that connect with magnets in different directions. In each cell, I place a convex mirror to reflect an image of its surrounding world. This is my way of confronting the current situation.

Amir Nasiri was born in 1979 in Tehran. As a teenager, he started learning photography at the Iranian House of Photographers and continued his studies at the Faculty of Art and Architecture. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, he spent five years learning and practicing form, space, and sculpture. For the past twelve years, he has been deeply engaged in learning various techniques and schools of jewelry making through workshops and classes in metalworking and jewelry making. During these years, he has been intensely focused on contemporary jewelry. Everything related to the structures of our existence and life constantly drives him to deconstruct. In his works, he is not destructive but is identifying the state of structures and wants to show us what is happening within the structures themselves.

Amir Nasiri