A Bug’s Life marks the first institutional solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Arash Nassiri in Germany. The exhibition centers around the eponymous film, co-commissioned in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, and presented alongside two new series of sculptures developed for the exhibition at Fluentum.
Arash Nassiri’s (b. 1986, Tehran) practice draws on the visual grammar of television and cinema, bending these familiar forms into speculative, fable-like narratives. References to Tehran run through most of Nassiri’s works, not as a place he depicts directly but as a kind of roaming, half-remembered presence. Central to his work is a fascination with architecture as a carrier of memory: he treats buildings and interiors as sites where migration, displacement, and cultural mixing leave their trace.