Artists
Arvin Golrokh (1992, Tehran, Iran) sees painting as a tool for reflecting on the control mechanisms exercised by institutions – whether governments, the media or educational systems – over the collective vision. His work explores the visual construction of power, propaganda and the manipulation of historical memory. Through dense compositions, full of fragmented images and authority figures in strange or alienating contexts, Golrokh manages to deactivate official discourses and activate buried memories. Over the last few years, he has focused his research on the contrast between the control strategies exercised in his country of origin and those present in the western world, questioning how the images we consume every day are made. To him, keeping a critical and independent vision is essential in any attempt at cultural homogenisation.
