Artist
Nazanin Raissi
Nazanin Raissi (b. 1981, Tehran) is a Swedish-Iranian artist and clinical psychologist based in Sweden. Centred on the medium of photography, her work ranges from site-specific installations to video animation and sculpture. Her research-based artistic practice explores themes of memory, loss, and displacement.
Carriers
If we trusted our psyches, we would understand that the line between the past and the present, the near and the far, the living and the dead, does not exist. We would
understand that one does not ask time what time it is. The series Carriers is rooted in a desire to uncover memories inherited, but never lived. It unfolds through the exploration of the clandestine devices of the darkroom and found press photographs of the Iranian revolution and its aftermath. Carriers testify to absence and presence, disappearance and memories of what once was but is now irretrievably lost.
Through explorative materializations of their artform from Joanna Chia-yu Lin's soft photographic sculptures; to Jošt Dolinšek's site specific photographies printed with fine sand on black surfaces; to aluminum explosives of clandestine devices of the dark room by Nazanin Raissi; and Louise Sinaga Helmfrid's astute portrayals, they invoke undercurrent positionalities within photographic art and visual culture production.
For the second year, Fotogalleriet has engaged curators, writers, researchers from the whole Nordic region as jury constituted by Curator at Röda Sten Konsthall Amila Puzić; Liisa-Ravna Rinborg, writer, researcher and curator currently situated at The Munch Museum; Samuel Girma, a curator, activist and cultural producer from Malmø; Nkule Mbaso, Director of Fotogalleriet and Miki Gebrelul, Curator and Head of Exhibitions at Fotogalleriet.