Lot 76: Reza Aramesh (Iran, born 1970) Action 87

Reza Aramesh (Iran, born 1970)
Action 87 silver gelatin print mounted on aluminumnumber 1 from an edition of 3, executed in 2010122 x 152cm (48 1/16 x 59 13/16in).

Exhibited: One Marylebone, Mottahedan Projects, Reza Aramesh: Them Who Dwell on the Earth, London, October 2012Literature:Canvas Central / Mottahedan Projects, Reza Aramesh: Them Who Dwell on the Earth, Dubai, 2011 Note:This present lot is being sold for the benefit of the Omid Foundation, registered UK Charity No. 1115318Please note that this lot is a TP lot and will be available for collection from Cadogan Tate from 12pm Friday 3 May 2019.Reza Aramesh was born in Awhaz, Iran in 1970. At the age of fifteen, Aramesh left his homeland and moved to London where he obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry. Aramesh then went on to obtaining a masters degree in Fine Arts from Goldsmith University in 1997. He currently lives and works in London.Reza Aramesh's soon found his medium of predilection in photography; an ideal form in which to meld his interest in the history of painting, film and literature with modern society and politics. This audacious subversion of space and time came to the fore in Aramesh's Action 71. Here, Aramesh invited homeless individuals to spend their night in selected rooms of the Tate Britain, sleeping with portraits produced between the seventeenth and eighteenth century representing individuals that focused on status and lineage.Reza Aramesh's photographic, sculptural, video and performance works have received international acclaim. His work has been featured in solo shows in Dubai, Shanghai, Rabat as well as at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Barbican Centre, Tate Britain and at the ICA in London.