Thingness

Statement:

In Mehdi Nabavi's recent series, the canvases forms create a compelling visual illusion, profoundly emphasizing the physical and tangible aspects of the artwork.

These pieces, when viewed from specific angles, deliberately challenge a direct unmediated encounter with the world depicted within them.

This approach underscores a critical act of desacralizing art, liberating it from notions of detachment, .inaccessibility, and insularity, thereby transcending purely objective perspectives This methodology is not new to Nabavi's practice.

He has previously reconstructed well-known European classical paintings and Persian miniatures through deformation, not only challenging artistic traditions that establish fixed frameworks and viewpoints but also actively inviting the viewer to shift their perspective for a deeper understanding and direct engagement with the art object itself.