Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity | Nazgol Ansarinia in conversation with Lucas Morin

#alserkalavenue #alserkalartsfoundation Rooted in Nazgol Ansarinia’s exploration of Tehran’s mass housing and the visual logic of its architecture, the talk examined how architectural forms and regulatory frameworks govern systems of visibility, control, and historical transformation. Using a constellation of materials — glass-like surfaces, steel, concrete, and large-scale video projections — she constructs a fragmented urban landscape that negotiates visibility, while exposing the structures that shape it. Her practice diverts dominant narratives of minimalism and materialism by reframing them within the architectural and bureaucratic afterlives of modernism in the Global South, where control is often embedded not in spectacle, but in structure. Through the talk, we traced the installation’s choreographies of looking — between seen and being seen, interior and exterior — and reflect on how Ansarinia’s work reveals the architecture of social control. Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity. Nazgol Ansarinia in conversation with Lucas Morin. Presented by Alserkal Arts Foundation. Video by John Gatapia (Seeing Things). Learn more about Alserkal Arts Foundation's programmes here: https://alserkal.online/foundation/ex...