Press Release
On the occasion of O Gallery’s 11th anniversary, we are pleased to show a recent collection of works by Armin Ebrahimi (b. 1984 Tehran), titled “neither/nor”.
Armin Ebrahimi is an artist whose evocative practice—spanning painting, drawing and video—navigates the shifting ground between figuration and abstraction, treating each medium as a means to explore and fragment temporal reality.
Through mythic and archetypal structures, Ebrahimi explores the dynamics of companionship and loss, transformation and mortality, plotting a terrain shaped by contemporary social and political realities. These images engage narrative traditions while addressing the specific context of contemporary Iran. In this interplay of form and meaning, his fractured compositions reflect the tensions between preservation and transformation, embedding subtle interpretation within a familiar yet continuously evolving cultural context. Dense, saturated foliage, deep shadows and vivid bursts of color function as metaphors for the chaotic subconscious and the political “pressure cooker,” drawing attention to the emotional impact of his work.
The artist explores the tension inherent in a world where complex accounts are flattened into quickly digestible, low-resolution "information". This contrast—between the dense, thickly layered oil paintings and the more immediate gestures in his works on paper—allows for a simultaneous exploration of both the raw unconscious emotions and the more conscious observations.
Selected Works
