Untitled (Modules)

Exploring urban life, consumption habits and social issues, Sirous Namazi suspends the daily functions of the objects he deconstructs through art. With the references in his works to architecture, the history of art, and minimalism in particular, Namazi focuses on the relationship between the whole and its constituent parts, the distinction between public and private space, and the concepts of interior and exterior as defined by architectural structures and national borders, as well as migration and social transformation. Created by assembling a number of structural units differentiated in terms of their colour, and at first glance resembling a huge Rubik’s cube, "Untitled (Modules)" is a work where Sirous Namazi reinterprets a spatial prototype reminiscent of the architecture of mass housing through various hues and volumes. The artist differentiates the identical architectural units formed of steel rods from each other by coating them with bright, industrial paints, thus questioning whether it is possible to identify a unique element in a block formed of repetitions.