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Nazgol Ansarinia grew up in Tehran, returning there after studying in London and the United States for several years. Intensely aware of the rapid changes in the city brought about by demolition and new construction, she makes reference to this in her artwork. Where gaps arise, they are filled with new forms. Spaces linked to personal and collective memories disappear. ‘You feel lost when you can’t relate to a space’, says the artist in one video. A sculpture of the same title, The Inverted Pool (2019–2022) examines the experience and conception of space. While looking for a place to live, Ansarinia gained access to buildings in the city that she usually only saw from the outside. For her, this opened up a new perspective on Tehran’s architecture. In the course of renovating her newly acquired house, the plans appeared to resemble a swimming pool. The volume of the house, inverted and recessed into the ground, creates the space of an empty swimming pool, with a deep and a shallow end. On the pool’s inside walls we can make out window-like apertures. The sculpture opens up a realm of imagination that merges physical, built, exterior spaces with psychological, intellectual, inner spaces.

As part of the exhibition C(to the power of)4, the sculpture was presented at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in 2022. The basis of this print is a plan of The Inverted Pool hand-drawn by the artist, which was realised as a three-colour screenprint on BFK Rives paper.

Nazgol Ansarinia (born 1979 in Tehran) lives and works in Tehran, Iran.

"The Inverted Pool", 2022
3-colour screenprint on BFK Rives
42 x 60 cm
Copies: 30 + 5 AP
Signed and numbered on label
Edition: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Price unframed: CHF 380

Price: CHF 380.00