A Bug’s Life

On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, Fluentum presents A Bug’s Life by Arash Nassiri, the first institutional solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist in Germany.

Co-commissioned in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, A Bug’s Life offers a surreal journey through an opulent Beverly Hills mansion. The building is one of the last examples of a once distinctive architectural micro-movement, brought by immigrants who came to the US at the turn of the 1979 revolution in Iran. In the eponymous film at the center of the exhibition, a wooden insect puppet moves through a palatial interior amid echoing conversations, framing the home as a site of aspiration and erasure where personal and architectural histories intersect.

Following its inaugural presentation at Chisenhale Gallery in London from January 18 to March 22, iterations of the exhibition will be presented at Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris from May 12 to July 18, and subsequently at Fluentum in Berlin.