We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Reza Aramesh’s solo exhibition “Number 207” on the occasion of the the 60th Venice Biennale, at Chiesa San Fantin, curated by Serubiri Moses, April 16th to October 2, 2024.
The British-Iranian artist Reza Aramesh was previously included in the Iranian Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale. “Number 207” is his first solo exhibition in Venice. It showcases three groups of ongoing sculptural series created specifically by Reza Aramesh in response to the architectural setting of the San Fantin Church. One of these series titled “Study of Sweatcloth” as an Object of Desire, which also forms the title of the exhibition, are two hundred and seven life sized men’s underwear carved from Carrara marble and dispersed evenly in formation across the floor of the church to achieve an illusion of abandoned garments. Each work refers to detention centres that the artist sought outthrough his archival research. The extant historical works of art contained within Chiesa San Fantin include the well-known “The crucifixion” by Leonardo Corona, who’s highlighting of Christ’s loincloth stand in direct conversation with their contemporary iterations, installed by Aramesh. Reza Aramesh, who’s practice is well documented and represented in museums and publications across the world, presents unnerving ‘icons of beauty and terror’ that derive from two key types of visual sources. The first, the beauty of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and painting of saints in agony and ecstasy. The second, researched archives of shocking reportage imagery of victims of war, conflict, and displacement. Aramesh’s aim has been to ‘create a dialogue between icons of European art history and images of contemporary zones of conflict’.
“Number 207” is presented by MUNTREF Museum Buenos Aires, with support from the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (ICA Miami). Collaborators are Diocese Patriarcato di Venezia, Dastan Art Gallery, and Stjarna.art.

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