Private waters
(2020)
- Medium
- resin
- Measurements
- (a-zz) (5.0) × 710.0.0 × 34.0 cm (variable) (installation)
- Place/s of Execution
- Tehran, Iran
- Edition
- ed. 1/2
- Accession Number
- 2022.552.a-zz
- Department
- Contemporary Design and Architecture
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Trawalla Foundation, 2022
© Nazgol Ansarinia and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Nazgol Ansarinia’s practice investigates Tehran’s urban space as a mirror for the political, economic and ideological events in the city. These resin casts present a scale model of private swimming pools built during the Los Angeles–inspired optimism of Tehran’s urbanist project during the late 1960s. Following the Iranian Revolution from 1979, and the rise of modesty laws, these pools, drained and disused, now lie dormant.
Depicting these hollow architectural spaces, which are unused despite the spiralling cost of land and Tehran’s rapid urban densification, Ansarinia reflects on the significance of these empty pools. She states that their presence suggests ‘a wish for them to be filled and used in an unforeseen future but holds on to the memory of them once full’.