Seyed Amin Bagheri (b.1981, Iran) Holds an MA in Painting from The Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture, Tehran Azad University (2010) and BA in painting from Soureh University, Shiraz, Iran (2005). His work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Iran and he has been the recipient of several awards and residencies. Bagheri Lives and works in Tehran. A multidisciplinary artist, working with drawing, painting, sculpture and video, Bagheri often focusses on the human figure and the drama of life – particularly the paradoxical dividing instant between laughter and tears or pain and pleasure. Working with both installation and the muscular immediacy of drawing, his work is a richly provocative exploration of the human experience, often depicting moments of profound physical and psychological impact./// His recent series of 24 drawings for Difficult delivery of the immortal baby with AB-ANBAR is an exposition of the trauma and euphoria of childbirth and the decisive moment where the newborn is expelled from the sanctuary of the womb to exist in the world of pain and pleasure. “Biologists believe there is nowhere as safe as womb. The very first cry of a newborn baby is an alarm of a sudden inevitable exile, psychologists say. This is the Fall. The first cry symbolizes all agonies of life, including the mother's labor pain. We never regain that sublime comfort we used to have in womb after birth. Perhaps the quality and quantity of crying and laughing, sorrow and happiness stems from the memory of separation from our motherland. There is no therapy for the homesickness of this unavoidable transition. Humans make their destiny gradually and seek what is defined as success and happiness in society, whereas the real relief is hidden in deliverance; freedom from the burden of possession with the help of a bare mind. I believe humankind's pain originates from the fact that the real euphoria is connected by an invisible umbilical cord to an imaginary womb. That blubbery globe has exploded and only a vague memory has remained in the unconscious. The outside cold has shattered the inside serenity. Lungs have started.” Seyed Amin Bagheri

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