Ag Galerie

Technique: Photographs, nails, board, wooden frame, acrylic paint

Size: 63 x 53 x 4 cm

Authenticity: Work signed by the artist, Certificate provided

Edition: Unique work

Price range: € 2.000 - € 4.000

Status: for sale

Untitled from the "Tasyan" series, 2013

Peyman Hooshmandzadeh's series of unique frames take its title from the word tasyan which in a northern dialect of Persian describes a feeling of loss and longing. Created following the artist’s personal losses, the series is a departure for Hooshmandzadeh’s usual style of documentary photography. Using appropriated images of lost loved ones from their childhood, the artist engaged in a cathartic creative process and gave shape to the physical representation of his feelings. Nails and pins reminiscent of pearls and gold and silver threads used in beautiful Qajar-era embroidery on velvet backgrounds for photograph displays, are hammered into each work in intricate designs surrounding photographs of deceased, immigrated and imprisoned individuals which include his mother, friends and even his daughter separated from him as a result of his divorce.