Nogol Mazloumi – Aaran Projects

Group Exhibition

On view until 5th June 2026

Presenting works by: Mohammad Eskandari, Amirali Ghassemi, Ebrahim (Amin) Eskandari, Behdad Lahooti, Shirin Mellatgohar, Koosha Moossavi, Mohammad Hamzeh, Hejazi Sisters, Maryam Farshad, Nogol Mazloumi, Sara Soleimani Qashqai, Sara Tavana, Hamid Hemayatian, Mahya Giv, Elmira Mirmiran, Sara Hosseini, Sara Assareh, Shahrzad Araghinejad, Rouzhan Bagheri, Nafiseh Moeini, Shaqayegh Soozankar, Shahriar Rafiei, Tina Sadeghian, Avin Farhadi, Parisa Taghipour

Walter Benjamin once asked if there were still people left who knew how to tell stories? If there is an answer to this question, perhaps it should be sought in Iran: A land where narrative still lives, not as entertainment but as a form of rumination, memory and survival. In Iran, the connection between events is never limited to "coincidence". From the heart of history, every experience becomes meaningful, and from the heart of meaning, a new narrative is born. This is the soft and enduring force that takes Iranian civilization beyond fleeting politics.

Written by Rouzbeh Kardovani

Narrators

Group Exhibition

Opening on August 9th 2024
On view until 30th August 2024

Artists:

Sara Anvari, Rozhan Bagheri, Nazanin Barati, Shilan Borhani, Azam Hosseinabadi, Parisa Abbasi, Sara Assareh, Nogol Mazloumi, Leila Nouraei, Nazgol Nayeri

The exhibition aims to bring together divergent set of works. Representing, but also upsetting the relationship of the artists and their connection to reality. Spheres that contain paradoxes, and manage to juxtapose the ideal with the unattainable.
Openings and closings.
Slices cut off from real world and shaped by emotional needs: Somewhere Else.
Breaking away from the harsh realities is a Persian Tradition, manifested in our literature and arts, even in our timeless tradition of humor. The tough realism of everyday is compensated by stepping in to another dimension, cherishing illusions that replace the real world.
Here are exaggerated floating spaces, – a placeless place- yet in connection with the spaces that remain outside them. Within these spaces we are alive, free of borders and restrictions, away from the mundane, separated from the gloom that engulfs our land. Able to float in an archipelago of plurality, as we are supposed to.
Nazila Noebashari