Mondegreens and New Understandings: Reza Aramesh, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson

Reza Aramesh (b. Iran) lives and works between London and New York. He received an MA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University, London, in 1997. Aramesh reimagines scenes of global conflict through sculptural reenactments, stripping them of overt signs of war, violence, and historical context. The resulting works are caught between beauty and brutality, and question the representation of the male body in relation to race, class, and sexuality. Exhibitions include Mondegreens and New Understandings: Reza Aramesh, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, New York (2025, forthcoming); Fragment of the Self, Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2025, solo); Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice (2024); Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Museum, New York (2021); 12 noon, Monday 5 August, Asia Society Museum, New York (2019, solo); Action 180, Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2019, solo); Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body (1300–Now), The Met Breuer, New York (2018); Sculpture in the City, London (2021); Frieze Sculpture Park, London (2017); Art Basel Parcours, Basel (2017); At 11:57 am Wednesday 23 October 2013, Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran (2016, solo); and The Great Game, 56th Venice Biennale, Iran Pavilion, Venice (2015).

His works have been staged in performative contexts at institutions such as the Barbican Centre, Tate Britain, and ICA, London. Aramesh’s practice is held in numerous public and private collections worldwide, including the Tate, UK; MOCAK, Poland; Rodin Museum; Versaille Palace Collection; Hugo Voeten Foundation; and the Zabludowicz Collection.

Nicola Samorì (b. 1977, Forlì, Italy) lives and works in Bagnacavallo, Italy. His work was included as a part of the Italian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Exhibitions include Mondegreens and New Understandings: Reza Aramesh, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, New York (2025, forthcoming); La bocca di Berlino, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin (2025, solo); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); KAFKAesque, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2024); Blend the Blind, Nicodim, New York (2024, solo); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2024); Luce e sangue, Duomo di Napoli, Neapel (2023, solo); Luce e sangue, Chiesa di Santa Lucia alla Badia, Syrakus (2023, solo); Medea, Antico Mercato, Syracuse (2023); Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, New York (2023); Le Ossa della Madre, Villa d’Este, Tivoli (2022, solo); On the Wall, Building Gallery, Milan (2022); MONO, Galerie EIGEN+ART, Lipsia (2022, solo); Sfregi, Palazzo Fava, Bologna (2021, solo); ROMA (Manuale della mollezza e la tecnica dell’eclisse), Monitor Gallery, Rome (2021, solo); Danae Revisited, Fondazione Francesco Fabbri, Pieve di Soligo (2021); 141 – Un secolo di disegno in Italia, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna (2021); Black Square, Fondazione Made in Cloister e Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples (2020, solo); In abisso, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2020, solo); Lucìe, MART- Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto (2020, solo); Stand 1D08, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2020); Collective Care: A House with Many Guests, M WOODS, Chaoyang, Beijing (2020); Cannibal Trail, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Caotun (2019, solo); Solstizio d’Inferno, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna (2019, solo); Metafysica, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg (2019); Preparing for Darkness – Vol. 3: I’m Not There, Kühlhaus, Berlin (2019); Iscariotes: Matteo Fato/Nicola Samorì, Casa Testori, Milan (2018, solo); Malafonte, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (2018, solo); BILD MACHT RELIGION: Kunst zwischen Verehrung, Verbot und Vernichtung, Kunstmuseum, Bochum (2018); Begotten, Not Made, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (2014, solo); The Venerable Abject, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (2012).

Hugo Wilson (b. 1982, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. His work has been exhibited at the The National Museum, Stockholm, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Wilson is collected by the New York Public Library, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the Janet de Botton Collection, the United States Library of Congress and many others. Exhibitions include Mondegreens and New Understandings: Reza Aramesh, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, New York (2025, forthcoming); The Raft, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2024, solo); SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2023); Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, Nicodim, New York (2023, solo); Joshua Hagler, Devin B. Johnson, Nicola Samorì, Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); Carnal Agreement, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2022, solo); Hollow Moon, Nicodim, New York (2021); Hugo Wilson, Parafin, London (2020, solo); Coincidental Truths, Galerie Judin, Berlin (2020, solo); When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2020); Iconic Works, The National Museum, Stockholm (2020); Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Museum, Helsinki (2020); Crucible, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (2019, solo); Skin Stealers, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2019); Hugo Wilson, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2018, solo); Dialogues / New Paintings from London, GASK, Kutná Hora Museum, Czech Republic (2018); Frieze Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London (2018).

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