Nazgol Ansarinia: Interior Renovations, Tehran, 2010

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Ansarinia's solo exhibition at Green Cardamom shows three bodies of work. The most recent, 'Mendings', investigates the emotional absence that is left after experiencing a momentous event which is then manifested in a domestic setting. She takes ordinary household objects, a chair or a mirror and removes a slice before fitting them back together, rendering them into charged objects -- fears and desires are subsumed by the carpets, furniture and decoration of the domestic setting which, when altered, take on a new psychological weight. In 'Non-flammable, Non-stick, Non-stain', Ansarinia manipulates the decorative language of cheap table-cloths or sofreh to reflect coded statistical data on the daily price index in Iran, offering a comment on the deteriorating social-economic conditions. The 'Patterns' series is the latest development in her ongoing project, updating motifs used in the traditional Persian carpet with imagery from contemporary Iran, offering a glimpse of routines and everyday life in Tehran.