Reza Aramesh Iranian, b. 1970

Artist Reza Aramesh was born in 1970 in Ahwaz, a small town in Iran, where he grew up desperately dreaming of an unfamiliar and exhilarating world miles away from this perceived enclave. Aramesh draws from a deep well of historical knowledge in art, culture and film that he has cultivated throughout his life. His work exemplifies his understanding of man’s intrinsically violent nature and voices his protest against the ways it is promulgated through mass media.  In his work, the human body finds simple, poetic contortions, caused by the unresolved burdens of mankind.