“Presenting his third collaboration with “Memorie Urbane”, the Iranian artist Nafir.

Confronting the censorship and repression of the Iranian government, Nafir began his path as a street artist in 2008, creating heavy-impact artworks as a comment on the political and social problems of his homeland and western societies both.

In these last years, he rediscovered a deeper connection with the artisanal production of his country, through the use of traditional objects such as Persian carpets and handmade ceramics.
Nafir, using spray paint and the technique of stencil, was able to find a space in the highly recognizable and intricate Persian designs where he could develop portraits, mostly centered around women, that seem to bring to the surface the deepest essence of the objects they’re adorning.
As the artist himself often explains, it’s the motif itself that ends up choosing the image they will carry.

This is the first Italian solo show of the artist, and to be exhibited are numerous carpets coming from all over Iran; ceramics handmade especially for the occasion by different Iranian artists and various other textiles of Persian origin, each with its own peculiar history of expert craft sustaining it.”