Ali Banisadr Pieces a Fragmented World Back Together In The Changing Past at Victoria Miro
Bella Bonner-Evans
Contemplating Ali Banisadr’s work is like hurtling at a terrifying speed through time, free-falling back to ancient Mesopotamia, darting forward to the edge of infinity and ricocheting between the fall of empires and the birth of new civilisations. His current exhibition, ‘The Changing Past’ at Victoria Miro, features monumental, jaw-droppingly complex and truly entrancing paintings that utilise forgotten histories as tools to imagine new futures.
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Installation view
Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past
11 October–11 November 2023
Victoria Miro, Gallery II, 16 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
© Ali Banisadr
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
