Kamrooz Aram: Domestic Compositions

A solo exhibition by Kamrooz Aram. The artist’s practice integrates sculpture, painting, and architecture, creating a context for viewing cultural artefacts in a way that brings them back into the present.

At the centre of five collages, for instance, is a repeated photo reproduction. The image is the kind of colour plate typical of Western art history books from the mid-to late 20th century, part of a decidedly Western taxonomy of museological and cultural representation – its own kind of artefact.

In making this series, Aram excised the photo of the bowl from several copies of a publication he deliberately does not name. But in his collage works, the artist uses images from his collection of books documenting Iranian art, with the rule that they must have been published before 1978, the year that Edward Said’s Orientalism was published, engendering the field of Postcolonial studies and offering a clear before-and-after.

To 10 January.

Above: Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (Paravent) (2024)