Arvin Golrokh, Visione fantastica, 2024, Oil on canvas, 220,5 × 348 cm
Primo Marella Gallery is pleased to announce that Arvin Golrokh will take part in the Pontevedra Biennial.
Founded in 1969, the Pontevedra Art Biennial is the oldest contemporary art biennial in Spain. This year it will be back from 21 June to 30 September 2025, after not being held for fifteen years!
With the slogan ‘Being Human Again. Regarding the Pain of Others’, Pontevedra will be a vibrant setting for reflection, debate and celebration of contemporary culture.
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Arvin Golrokh (1992, Tehran, Iran) sees painting as a tool for reflecting on the control mechanisms exercised by institutions – whether governments, the media or educational systems – over the collective vision. His work explores the visual construction of power, propaganda and the manipulation of historical memory. Through dense compositions, full of fragmented images and authority figures in strange or alienating contexts, Golrokh manages to deactivate official discourses and activate buried memories. Over the last few years, he has focused his research on the contrast between the control strategies exercised in his country of origin and those present in the western world, questioning how the images we consume every day are made. To him, keeping a critical and independent vision is essential in any attempt at cultural homogenisation.
Presented artwork:
Arvin Golrokh
Visione fantastica 2024
Oil on canvas
220,5 × 348 cm
May 28, 2025
