A young woman sits hunched in a chair, knees covered by a blanket, gaze turned aside, lost in thought. Behind her an old television, a dingy wall, a mantle littered with domestic debris. At her feet, worn tiles or linoleum. Farsam Sangini, located in Tehran, strikes me as displaying an imaginative and deep empathy with the everyday, with the quotidian concerns of his sitters and with the details of their …

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Farsam Sangini and Lapsking Hamed Dehnavi are in this exhibition Video from Our group exhibition with Stuckist’s in Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre curated by Edward Lucie-Smith together with Zavier Ellis, Janet Rady and Ignas Kazakevičius. The aim of this exhibition is to give a snapshot view of two very different contemporary art worlds – the one that now exists in London, and the one that has grown up in Iran …

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