Review of Reza Aramesh’s "Fragments of the Self" at Night Gallery

“Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us.” With this quotation from Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, Tara Anne Dalbow opens her review of Reza Aramesh’s solo exhibition “Fragments of the Self” at Night Gallery. Tracing the works on view, she concludes that Aramesh stages a dialectic between the beautiful — embodied in form — and the abject — embodied in posture — reaching a fever pitch in this exhibition. Spanning geographies from Vietnam to Iraq and across different historical moments, the works converge on a single theme: dehumanization. Dalbow closes her essay with a line from Emily Dickinson on pain: “it has no future — but itself".

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