Nesa Pourgholi

Nesa Pourgholi, born and raised in Tehran, Iran is an expressive visual teller of nonlinear stories. While immersing the audience in a landscape built to reflect emotional complexities, Nesa simultaneously questions the individual perception of a tale. 

She is currently stuck behind a glass, forced to only be a witness of a slow decay and destruction. While being wedged between weaponised narratives, she insists on telling tales of vulnerability. Loss, longing and rage are her main themes in her work. Her visual language allows emotions to flood the scene as a tool for survival. Their origins, destinations, and effects are never separate from the visual world they inhabit. 

Feelings so intense they step out of their human containment. In Nesa’s contemporary fables, they materialise in various media. Painting, costume, performance, animation, sound, poetry and film, all intertwine and mingle, becoming both stage and actors.