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Tahayori works across conceptual photography, moving image, and installation.
About Ali Tahayori (he/him)
Ali Tahayori works across conceptual photography, moving image, and installation. He uses archival materials, narrative fragments and performative modalities to explore themes of identity, home, and belonging.
Combining fractured mirrors with text and imagery, Tahayori’s recent works draw on ancient Iranian philosophies about light and mirrors to create kaleidoscopic experiences; moments of both revelation and concealment that hint at the conflicted nature of his identity. Translating the traditional Iranian craft of Āine-Kāri (mirror-works) into a contemporary visual vocabulary, his practice combines a discourse about diaspora and displacement with an exploration of queerness – in both cases, poignantly testifying to his experience of being othered.
Biography
Born in Shiraz, Iran, Ali Tahayori currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia (Gadigal country). Raised in the oppressively homophobic climate of 1980s Iran, Tahayori assumed the identity of an outsider, further compounded by his migration to Australia in 2007. He holds a Doctorate in Medicine and MFA in Photomedia from National Art School. Tahayori has exhibited locally and internationally and has been a finalist and winner of several local and International art prizes.
Tahayori is represented by THIS IS NO FANTASY Gallery, Melbourne.
Recent works
“Combining fractured mirrors with text and imagery, Tahayori’s recent works draw on ancient Iranian philosophies about light and mirrors to create kaleidoscopic experiences”