Siavash Naghshbandi | "Inevitably Inescapable": Electric Room 17/50

Dastan is pleased to announce “Inevitably Inescapable”, an audio-visual installation by Siavash Naghshbandi at Electric Room. The show will be open to public view from December 8 to 13, 2017.

Siavash Naghshbandi (b. 1987, Tehran Iran) graduated in Animation from IRIB Art University, Tehran in 2008 and has worked on a number of photography, film editing, and documentary projects. His films have been shown at different film festivals such as the SEH-TANK: Cinéma Subversif in Zurich; the Middle East Now Film Festival in Florence or the Göteborg Film Festival. His photographs and films have been exhibited in several groups and solo exhibitions including at Aaran Art Gallery; Azad Art Gallery; Mehrva Art Gallery; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, Hafriyat Karakoy Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; Tomin Videothek, Frankfurt, Germany; and Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C, USA. In 2008 he was awarded the Jury Prize of The Third Photo Festival of Art University in Tehran and in 2007 he won the 2nd prize at the First Documentary Photo Festival in Isfahan. Naghshbandi was also the photographer of the motion picture “About Elly…” (2008), a film by Academy-Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi.

Developer: Soroush Gharebaghi
Music: Nima Pourkarimi
Graphic Designer: Farideh Barati
Architect: Ramtin Taherian
Printmaker: Sina Choopani (garage.co)
Thanks to: Hamid Pour-Azari, Azad Jafarian, Sohrab Kashani, Sajad Mir-Moeeni, Mohammad-Hossein Keshavarz, Siavash Yazdanmehr, Naghmeh Abbasi, Keiman Mahabadi, Pendar Nabizadeh, Behafarid Ghafarian, Aidin Azarkerdar, Hasan Mahdavi, Ahmad Solgi, Mithra Seyedi