Ronak Moshtaghi is a visual artist born and raised in Tehran. Ronak’s practice lies at the intersection of drawing, sculpture and installation art.

Pointing to the idea of reading or seeing as an activity that depends on one’s situation in space and time is a recurring theme in her work. By dictating a beginning, an end, a front or a back to her artworks, she is interested in the audiences interaction with her work through the chronological nature of her installations and sculptures. While oscillating between, obscurity and clarity, her work reflects on the relation between language, abstraction and violence. 


Ronak’s work has been shown at MUNCH Museum, Oslo; Spreeufer-Berlin; Kunsthall Oslo; Louise Dany, Oslo; and The Mosaic rooms, London. 
The performative aspects of her work have led her to collaborate in the creation of several dance performances. In addition to making art, Ronak’s practice also includes self-organised projects such as the platform Bazar Art Book, which she co-founded in Tehran in 2018 and continues to this day.


Gaps in my reading

Installation (2017), Silkscreen on fabric, Cut out. 

The rifle figure pattern on the curtain is borrowed from the cover of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth, a classic analysis of colonialism and decolonisation, published in Farsi in 1982, Nilufar Press edition. Different designs for the cover of this book, published during, before and after the Islamic Revolution in Iran, suggest different ways of understanding this book in different times and geographies. Gaps in my reading is a partition which at the same time is binding the printed image to its background and to what exists in the room at this time and space.