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ArtEvol 2025 / Armin Amirian
Protesters , 2020 C-type print 66 × 101.6 cm
Armin Amirian is a self-taught photographer and artist. Amirian grew up in Isfahan, a city renowned for its rich artistic and architectural heritage, long celebrated as the birthplace of many influential Iranian figures. Amirian’s childhood and teenage years were marked by exploration across genres and mediums of art, while simultaneously pursuing studies in Physics. The turning point arrived in early adolescence with the introduction of a camera, which transformed the act of looking into a defining artistic practice. Amirian’s work reflects inspiration from the cultural legacy and the contemporary struggles of his homeland, creating dynamic interpretations of collective experience.
Artwork Introduction Protesters present a frozen image from wide street protests of tens of thousands of women during 8–12 March 1979 (International Women’s Day), less than a month after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. These protests, mostly led and marched by women, were for the equal rights women had with men up until then, which the newly founded dictatorial regime started to take away immediately after coming to power by announcing and enforcing laws such as the compulsory hijab law. Protesters belong to the hICEstory art series created in 2020 after the world started to face the global disaster of the COVID-19 pandemic, when quarantine became widespread. Within that despair and loneliness, the series was developed as if the artworks themselves were in isolation. Images from significant events were placed in water, frozen into special ice forms and then photographed.
These works are like the world we live in, frozen but still breathing. They represent what is behind the ice, a surface that could melt away or break at any time.
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