Toloo Naseri (b. 1985) lives and works in Tehran, Iran. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Photography from the Azad University of Art and Architecture. Later on, she adopted the photography’s visual aspects and translated into the painting visual language a few years after graduation.
Toloo Naseri’s notion of inspiration comes from the imaginary world and explores social-political happenings and personal dilemmas. The powerful, chaotic compositions that modernizes surrealism’s lawless aims feature bold colors and surprising compositions.
Her main material is acrylic on canvas and the technique Tooloo employs rejects abstraction and favors recognizable subject matter, consciously adopting a raw style of rendering and a heightened palette to convey direct emotions.
Enduring her current artistic practice, she works on installation bodies to comply with the paintings. Toloo demonstrates the combination of her subconscious thoughts and unconventional spaces.
Her focus is on unexpected contrasts of textures, objects, and human life, leading the viewer into surprising unexplored visual perspectives.
These days, contemporary humans are bombarded with massive numbers of events, and news that leads us to a collective numbness concerning everything, whether brutal, peaceful, unpleasant, or fair.
In other words, Toloo’s paintings and forthcoming body of installation; are a mirage on the horizon, and the viewer cherishes those momentary.
Therefor, the other important notion Toloo describes is to create improbable, surprising, unforeseen scenes that strangely may happen in reality and draw attention to the event of life and her lived experience. Proportions and balance of the characters, forms, and colors in Toloo’s practice are coming together organically and make the narrations’ decisions at some points. She mainly rejects the abstract values of the recognizable subject matter, deliberately employing an unprecedented rendering and a heightened palette to convey direct emotion.
Toloo Naseri has participated in several group exhibitions nationally and internationally and held two solo shows throughout the past four years.