Aydin Bagheri – The 11th Persbook Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition

Aydin Bagheri

Title: Unpleasantly Buried
Technique: Light Box / Installation
Dimensions: 100×100 cm
Year: 2021

Aydin Bagheri, a sociologist, researcher, documentary filmmaker, and artist, was born in 1991. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology, focusing on topics such as cities, war, and women’s issues, and is currently pursuing his PhD.

His main interests and focus lie in social issues, particularly urbanization, the effects of war on youth, and women’s rights. His research findings have been shared through specialized articles, documentary films, and exhibitions.

Additionally, Bagheri uses various mediums in the art world to present his research findings, utilizing different artistic media.

“Most things that seem natural to us are the products of capitalism. In fact, we grow up with the belief that capitalist market relations are more natural and unquestionable than anything else in nature.” — John Bellamy Foster

Time rushes forward with the speed that is the result of our contemporary situation, and we move alongside it in the breathless marathon of mass production and consumption! Cheerfully, we cling to temporary and unstable solutions for our impending troubles, with immutable assumptions that allow us to continue along the same old path. It seems that the wound in our relationship with nature (which has so far supplied our reasonable and unreasonable demands beyond its capacity) is getting deeper and deeper. Rather than healing, we bury everything unpleasant and leading to our collective trauma within the earth’s wounds to hide it from sight, even though the issue remains. I desperately imagine that in an uncertain future, we might host such a mourning celebration, perhaps without anyone to mourn for us! The price for what we have taken from nature might only be our extinction.