RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh are brothers who collaborate with Hesam Rahmanian to construct provocative installations that challenge conventional modes of display and standards of value. Persian street-theatre or Ta’ziyeh is a particularly important influence on their practice, with its use of props, theatricality, cross-dressing and irony.
Ramin Haerizadeh (b.1975, Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (b.1978, Tehran), and Hesam Rahmanian (b.1980, Knoxville, Tennessee) met each other in Tehran in the mid-1990s. The artists have been living and working together in a shared house in Dubai since 2009. Their works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions as well as biennials around the world, including at the Kunsthalle Zürich (2015), the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2017), the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2019), and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2019), the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), and the Biennale of Sydney (2020).
Their medley of influences ranges from satirical folk theatre, illuminated manuscripts, miniature painting and Persian poetry, to modernist art and pop culture.
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