The Arts Club Dubai, located in ICD Brookfield Place, is hosting That Which Does Not Belong, an exhibition by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian, an artist collective. Displaying their unconventional works (3D collages, paintings, and sculptures), the show offers a thorough reimagining of identity and divining meaning from multiple subjects and influences.
With their collaborative practice reconstituting the concept of a collective, Rokni, Ramin, and Hesam view art-making as a field of negotiation where every idea is debated from various points of view. Nature is also a collaborator in their practice: the trio exposes their art pieces to the elements for extended periods. For them, this process is part of the natural evolution of an artwork.
That Which Does Not Belong presents a collection of creations that disrupt conventional ideas of identity and what we define as art objects. Incorporating found objects, the exhibits blur boundaries between humans and nature as well as between the public and private worlds, encouraging the spectator to ponder the interconnectivity of all things. All in all, the show raises the question of where art belongs, asserting that its place is everywhere.
About the artists
Artists Ramin Haerizadeh (b. 1975, Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (b. 1978, Tehran), and Hesam Rahmanian (b. 1980, Knoxville, USA) started to collaborate in 1997 in Tehran. In 2009, they moved to Dubai, where they still live and work together aiming to blur the boundaries between the personal and professional. Their house is a working studio, film set, movie theatre, museum, and research centre.
In the trio’s practice, production is performance, and the performance is a collective action leading to dance, art, and politics. The Haerizadeh brothers and Rahmanian explore a model of how to collaborate, translating it into multiple forms. It often involves friends, writers, musicians, artists, and non-artists (for example, their housekeeper or a person the trio met in a parking lot).
The artist collective’s work is often referred to as a landscape where the complex nature of processing is integrated into the nested system that forms the landscape of their practice. In their expansive installations built upon their perception of life as theatre, the artists refer to a plethora of cultural, literary, and artistic sources and seek to draw attention to the urgent political and social conflicts of the present moment, challenging power mechanisms and normative gender roles, along with views on art and culture.
The trio has displayed their art pieces in multiple solo shows such as The Beautiful Decay of Flowers in The Vase (Galerie In Situ – fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris, France, 2023); Parthenogenesis (NYU Abu Dhabi, 2022); and From Sea to Dawn (Galerie Krinzinger, Vienne, Austria, 2018), to name a few. Ramin, Rokni, and Hesam have also participated in numerous group exhibitions and art shows: A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020 (Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 2022); The 22nd Biennale of Sydney (Australia, 2020); On the Fringes of Identity (Museo Storico della Città di Lecce (MUST), Italy, 2019); and Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2018), among others.
The artists’ work is part of esteemed public and private collections such as Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Genève, Switzerland), Städel Museum (Frankfurt, Germany), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (USA), and others. The collective has received three awards: the Black Mountain College Prize (2022), the OGR Torino & Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT Prize (2017), and the Han Nefkens Foundation/MACBA Award (2016).
To learn more about That Which Does Not Belong, please visit the show’s official web page.
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