Nazgol Ansarinia dissects, interrogates, and recasts networks, objects, and events to draw out relationships to the contemporary Iranian experience. Her mode of working covers diverse media, including video, 3D printed models, and drawings. Subjects are as varied as automated telephone systems, U.S. national security policies, the memories associated with a family house, and the patterns of Persian Carpets.
In the early 2000s, as urban redevelopment accelerated and intense construction significantly diminished public space in Tehran, state-funded murals began to represent imaginary landscapes on building facades...