Between The Eye And Object Falls The Shadow by Reza Aramesh (December 27, 2009) 
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Curator Statement – Fariba Farshad
Recent history, particularly the history of conflict, informs Reza Aramesh’s series Between The Eye And Object Falls The Shadow. Unlike Sadegh Tirafhan and Abbas Kowsari, Aramesh works with actors and models. His series draws its inspiration from Francisco Goya's "The Disasters of War," (1810-1820). Aramesh arranges his actors in a variety of tableaux or, in his terms, numbered ‘actions’ in which 17th century Spanish artist prints are contrasted with found photographic imagery from Reuters depicting disputes mainly in the Middle East from the 1960s to the present day. Each of Aramesh’s scenes is deliberately and incongruously set in of the stately and historical homes in the idyllic English countryside.
Fariba Farshad is the curator of Candlestar, an innovative London based cultural consultancy. Read Farshad's general introduction on her week of Iranian photographers here.
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Reza Aramesh was born in the South of Iran in 1970, and now lives and works in London, where he moved when he was sixteen. In 1997 Aramesh gained an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University, London.
Through his artwork, Aramesh seeks to create compositions that are both poetic and political; each piece can be constituted as an ‘action.’ Aramesh often works with non-professional or semi-professional actors and models as signifiers in an aesthetic which is informed by his deep interest in film history, literature and art history.
In his work Aramesh explores his identity as a Middle Eastern man, as well as the complex relationship between East and West. The surfaces of his pictures and interiors are slick and comfortable, yet the spaces beyond are full of tension, as the process of unmasking and unframing both destabilizes and enriches the viewer’s understanding of the identity of the artist and his work.
The cast of a his theatrically staged photographs features only Middle Eastern men, the stately home settles the viewer and heightens our alarmed response to his precise historical captioning.
Reza Aramesh (1970) lives and works in London, UK.
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