Navid Nuur (1976, Teheran) lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands. Nuur uses a range of media, including text, ceramics, light and installation. His often transitory process-based works represent, and evolve from, a series of subjective conditions and rules, which the artist intuitively establishes through his careful consideration of a particular space, substance or immaterial phenomenon, such as energy.
His use of ceramics for instance, results from a long process. After wandering through Paris with the unfired potteries in hand, pushing them with his whole body against diverse locations as to imprint them with the spirit of the city, the ceramics are fired and glazed with uncommon materials gathered from the very core of the capital, such as stones and waste. The primitive forms of the pottery are 'fed' by a city’s history.
Nuur activates material objects, bringing them to life through heat and light, letting the traces of that process become part of his artistic gesture.