Ramin Haerizadeh (b. 1975, Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (b. 1978, Teheran) and Hesam Rahmanian (b.1980, Knoxville, USA) live and work together in Dubai as their individual and collective practices contract, expand, and merge in symbiosis. This multi-layered and ever-evolving practice is an additive method, one that involves extensive research, ongoing dialogue, and trial and error. Resulting in complex, multimedia, and immersive installations, the artists place emphasis on the importance of ‘reporting on our time’ and bringing attention to the ‘urgencies’ of the present moment.

Ramin, Rokni and Hesam’s new series of paintings on weathered tarpaulin depict newspaper spreads of reworked, re-stitched, and regurgitated news reportage, spectacle, and mediated broadcast content intertwined with zoomorphic beings and surrealist interventions in which the three artists viscerally debate a topic (or multiple for that matter) between themselves within what they aptly term as a ‘Fields of Negotiation’ where subjectivity and objectivity are deconstructed and warped. The final appearance of such paintings are not pre-determined but rather are the outcome of an ‘open space’ in which unknown and unexpected images become activated. This ’negotiation field’ is very much at play in all its theatrical guises in 'Painting in Drag', 2012-2019, though the multifaceted manipulation and regurgitation of informative content. Based on their morning routine of reading the newspaper during breakfast and while they debate some of the topics in the news, they take photos of the pages on their table juxtaposed with the fruits, cups, teapots, etc. Photos are then printed on canvas and together with decorative wall papers, they are collaged onto a large scale tarpaulin. While installed for a long period on the outdoor walls surrounding their studio garden and allowing the outdoor conditions to slowly affect the conditioning of the work, the artists each in their own time go and work on each painting in constant creative flux.