FUTURES 2025: Nazanin Raissi at Oslo Negativ
Fotogalleriet and FUTURES are proud to present FUTURES nominee 2025 Nazanin Raissi at Oslo Negativ 2025 opening 11 October at Nasjonalgalleriet.
Nazanin Raissi (b. 1981, Tehran) is a Swedish-Iranian artist and clinical psychologist based in Sweden. Centred on the medium of photography, her artistic practice extends to site-specific installations, video animation, and sculpture. Rooted in research, her work engages with themes of memory, loss, and displacement. Nazanin Raissi holds a Master’s degree in Photography from the University of the Arts London (2019). Exhibitions include Röda Sten Konsthall, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, Alma Löv Museum, and CFF – The Centre for Photography, Stockholm.
Arrival (2024) is an animation created from a black-and-white press photograph, depicting a group of Iranian men who have arrived at Stockholm Arlanda Airport as political refugees. The men have settled on a sofa. One of them seems to cover his face while the man in the middle leans forward, resting his head in his lap. The original image has been reversed from a positive to a negative and run through a copying machine towards a vanishing point, through the disintegrated pattern of the copying process. These manoeuvres in various ways allude to searching, layers of time, and the nature of memory, like copies of copies. The work has no beginning and no end. With a slow and barely visible movement, the animation zooms in and out of the image in a seamless infinite loop.
Commisioned by Röda Sten Konsthall. In collaboration with Jimmy Herdberg, generative artist.
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FUTURES is a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across the world. Since 2017, it has aimed to add long-term value by empowering early and mid-career photographers – launching initiatives to promote their work and granting them access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets, and audiences. FUTURES seeks to encourage new and adventurous ways of enhancing the vital relationship between artists and the industry by creating an ecosystem that allows and stimulates cross-pollination, while simultaneously becoming the go-to source for emerging photography worldwide. FUTURES works as a growing international network of influential organizations operating in the field of photography, bringing together a wealth of resources, expertise, and talent programs to draw from. Each year, they nominate a group of rising photography talents to join the platform and co-host a series of events to increase their capacity, mobility, and visibility. Simultaneously, the platform aims to reveal new and exciting photographic approaches by celebrating a diversity of stories, encouraging upcoming artists to present their most challenging work, and providing insights into their world and most recent projects.
The platform currently draws from and collaborates with a consortium of the following art institutions across Europe to amplify emerging talents in photography: CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), Centre de la photographie Genève (CH), and our research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT).
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