Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian

Where To? Wherever It Chances, 2019

© Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian

Photo credit : Aurelien Mole

Courtesy of the artists and galerie In Situ - fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris

Ramin Haerizadeh (born 1975, Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (born 1978, Tehran) and Hesam Rahmanian (born 1980, Knoxville) have lived and worked together in Dubai since 2009. They work independently and together propagating a form of collaboration that doesn’t suppress individualism. The seeds of their language were sown as early as 1999, back in Iran. Their practice offers up a novel redefinition of the collective, as theirs is constantly growing and contracting to incorporate friends, writers, and artists at large. It entails the use of both low and high art references, and they freely embrace ‘what is considered marginal, wasted, wrong, messed up, useless, and taken for granted’. Their individual practices differ stylistically while political and social commentary become inherently subversive in a common reflection. The exhibitions they conceive are as much insights into their daily practice, which they designate as the ritual of living and working together.

Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian

Home Home Sweet Home, 2018-2021

Acrylic, paper collage, heavy mold, Iphone 4 Plastic Speaker, acrylic spraypaint, cardboard and aluminium tape

172 x 235 x 29 cm

Pièce unique

© Aurélien Mole

Immersive and multi-media, their installations build upon their perception of life as theatre while also making visible their process. Generally, their proposals begin with the ‘creatures’ that the three artists become, physically and mentally, and whose very beings are the roles played. Multivalent references from a variety of sources are carefully contrived and filtered growing in parallel without trying to reconcile them. Placing emphasis on the importance of ‘reporting on our time’, they wish to bring attention to the urgencies of the present moment while opening up questions over a spectrum of subjects such as views on art and culture, gender fluidity, and power mechanisms.

‘The conglomeration of things actually asks us to look at what is in front of us’ comment the artists, demanding time for contemplation. The artists seek to encourage the viewer to recognise the reality of interdependency and the value of solidarity with others. Therefore, they create a sense of alienation or estrangement from reality with depersonalised individual subjects (creatures) and inhomogeneous crafted objects. In this way, they aim to exorcise the sentimentalism, resulting in an emotional distance to elicit from the viewer astonishment rather than empathy and ultimately allowing for critical analysis.

Founded by Fabienne Leclerc in 2001, In Situ began in the 13th district of Paris alongside a group of galleries in rue Louise Weiss.

Since October 2019, In Situ - fabienne leclerc has moved into a new space in Romainville, accompanied by Air de Paris, gallery Jocelyn Wolff, gallery Sator, the association Jeune Création, the FRAC Ile-de-France as well as the Fiminco Foundation.

The ambition of In Situ - fabienne leclerc is to promote young and emerging artists in France and internationally, and to support its established artists in the long term, in the gallery, in associated museums and institutions, and to produce and edit artist catalogues and books.