HOW TO CREATE THE UNEXPECTED
About life in exile, anarchic art, and the “black milk” of the earth: The art historian Media Farzin met her old friends Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian for conversation.
By Media FarzinI’ve known Hesam, Ramin, and Rokni for some years; the brothers are old friends from Tehran. Despite the multi-year gaps in our conversations, each one seems to start exactly where the last one left off, a consistent and consistently expanding universe. The following touches on some of the ideas in their current show, especially the impact of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88).
Could you tell me a little bit more about your installation?
We call this show a “landscape” rather than an installation. We tend to work on a subject for a long time. Things branch out in different ways, and then come together at a certain moment as a landscape. We have collaborators, too, artists who migrate into our shows.