If there’s something I wholeheartedly admire is the democratization and evolution of pop culture.
Concepts like ‘locally global’ define this new era of ours were culture has widely spread through the Internet, defining the identity of millions of people not by their geographical locations, borders or sociopolitical environment but through ideas.
The Internet has allowed anyone to share an idea with anyone, no matter distance, or relevance. Long are gone the days were art was synonymous of social class or propaganda. Now it represents and enhances our memories, our identity.
I don’t know anything about modern art, I don’t understand it, I’m not an expert and I don’t cry when I see a chair in the middle of a white room.
Maybe it was the weather, or it might have been the funny coincidence of ‘New Art from the Middle East’ making the word: N.A.M.E.
Probably it was just my narrow perception of what a country like Iran should look like, but something definitely happened there, last Sunday, after a sandwich at the park and a few drinks the night before.
There’s an exhibition of New Art from the Middle East at the Saatchi gallery in London. Twenty one new artists from Iran showing their work on a building full of white minimalistic rooms.
I would love to be able to accurately describe the importance of each work, write a review about them or an essay on translation of perception between the East and the West. But I can’t and I won’t.
I’m not an expert, but I know when something catches my imagination, and the work of these 21 artists did.
You can’t walk into a room like this and not feel anything
If there’s something I wholeheartedly admire is the democratization and evolution of pop culture.
