Nazgol Ansarinia

Nazgol Ansarinia’s work examines the systems and networks that underpin her daily life such as everyday objects, routines, events and experiences, and the relationship they form to a larger social context. Born and raised in Tehran, Ansarinia’s practice reflects upon tensions between private worlds and the wider socioeconomic realm, and how local iterations of a culture might act as a site for the hopes and fears of those living in a (faltering) globalised world.

In 2019, Atelier JI produced the limited edition pigment print mirrors the large-scale piece ‘Membrane’, a three-dimensional scanned impression of marks left over time on a now-demolished wall, like a tangible memorial to the past. The embossing technique used to produce this print creates a subtle, barely perceptible relief in the paper, resurfacing the texture of the architectural walls evoked in the eponymous piece.