All that Occupies Space

In the new series of Yasser Mirzaee’s works, the nuances of emotional expressions have been replaced by social and political themes. The penetrating gaze of single characters emerging from delusional backgrounds, now are invaded by a scattered spectrum of daily modern images like video games, implications from T.V. shows, nuclear tests, airplane crashes, modernization of rustic life and its replacement of unfamiliar technological instruments is the central theme of the series. In his spaces, real & virtual world, dream & reveille, real conflict & war games, alternatively change place.

Yasser Mirzaee has been liberated from romantic loneliness of his characters and has consciously traveled to a reality where one encounters a narrative context and simple subjects depicting the relationship between human beings and the world that they live in. This relationship, which is only possible via technological instruments and tools, is hard to define due to human’s alienation from technology resulting from its rapid speed of advancement and change.

The ambiguous atmosphere of Mirzaee’s works depicts human fear to face the modern world in which he inevitably lives in. Consequently, the artist forces us to contemplate on the concept and meaning of technology. “This should happen in a context which is affiliated to technology, and on the other hand is fundamentally different from it. Art is this context.” - Questions in Technology by Martin Heidegger

Afarin Neyssari