2009 Recipients
Artist Nazgol Ansarinia
Born and raised in Tehran, along with rest of my generation I grew up in a unique situation of social turmoil. I believe the circumstances created an awareness, which has left a great influence on me and in return on my work. At seventeen I left Tehran to study in London and spent four years at the University of the Arts London studying graphic design. Although my field of activity has shifted from design to fine art, my design background has remained a very important part of my way of thinking and creating. Part of this shift in practice comes from the two years spent in San Francisco doing an MFA at CCA. Returning to Tehran after seven years of studying and working in Europe and US, my focus is on developing my artistic practice.
My work for the six years has been inspired by the everyday objects, routines, events and experiences and their relationship to the larger social context. While drawing inspiration from the context in which I live in my work is equally informed by theoretical discussions of our time. The kind of creating my work has built on is a sort of amplification of the mundane, an attempt in making the ordinary something extraordinary by representing that which is interwoven and concealed in our daily life. Through my work I intend to understand the inner workings of a social system by examining, taking apart and then putting back and representing the elements of that system. This often involves dissecting the multilayered and dense nature of the everyday and presenting it detached and disconnected from its original context.
Nazgol Ansarinian Photo - Credit C RolexStefania Beretta
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