Farhad Ahrarnia's Work at Victoria and Albert Museum

"Shiraz" an artwork by Farhad Ahrarnia, was added to the permanent collection of Victoria and Albert Museum. This piece is a part of a collection started in 2015, offering a  new reading of the characteristics and processes of traditional Iranian inlay making. In these artworks, the composition of the traditional inlay, which has been based on a perfect symmetry, is broken, so it would seem to create visually and conceptually different experiences and new combinations of inlay and its structural characteristics that are related to the space and rhythm of modernity and the components and parts of the urban life.

 Adapting from handicraft techniques such as embroidery, engraving, and recently inlay, Farhad Ahrarnia shapes his artistic experience. Ahrarnia, who spent his childhood in his birthplace, Shiraz, is still exploring and perceiving the city; a city that has maintained its signs of indigenous tradition and architecture and at the same time, has welcomed modern buildings inspired by modernism. The result of such an approach is "a broken reading of the city of Shiraz in the 21st century that changes periodically; it is fragmented but dynamic and lively."

"Shiraz", 2009,   inlay technique, metal and wood inlay in plaster, 51  × 37 cm