“By dissolving substances, water helps the imagination in its task of de-objectifying and assimilating. Water is the element of dreams, the element that in helping us dematerialize the objective world inspires us to dream.” — Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams.
Galleria Raffaella Cortese is pleased to announce Pools and Voids, the second solo show by Iranian artist Nazgol Ansarinia (Tehran, 1979) in Milan. The exhibition in Via Stradella 7 presents a new body of work conceived during the last months and shown for the first time. Throughout her career, Ansarinia has addressed numerous topics such as control, memories associated with inhabited places, the urban development of Tehran with its demolition and rapid reconstruction process, patterns and motifs, recalling Persian mirror mosaics and carpets, which she then translates into artworks employing several media such as video, sculpture, drawing, and collage.
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