11.1.2017
Navid Nuur
In his works, Navid Nuur reveals unexpected truths, transformations and shifts, often by repositioning given functions and meanings. ”Many of my pieces begin with an object or an idea that irritates me”, says Nuur, who always creates experiences and situations of playful and poetic strength. To describe his works, he created the term “interimodules”, which emphasizes their temporary and correlated nature and avoids a classical categorization in installation, sculpture, painting or photography.
“Navid Nuur doesn’t like to see his ‘Interimodules’ as completed objects, whose task consists exclusively in being presented in an exhibition room, but as components of a larger whole, as modules surrounded by mystery and which arise from a collaboration between different artistic processes on the one hand and an interaction with themselves, with time, with the place, and with the room on the other: may be also a little like ‘installation’ in the traditional art sense, but in Nuur’s implementation multiply ambiguous, more communicative and more alive. In the choice and use of his materials, Dadaist in its sometimes ironic, dauntless realization, owing much to the Fluxus tradition in the playfully easy way the principles of reality are visualised, and of course via the various manifestations of performance art, Navid Nuur demonstrates an artistic position that redefines genuineness and liveliness in art.”
Andrea Linnenkohl, How to be real in Navid Nuur: The Value of Void, Onomatopee, 2010