Tanaz Modabber is an Iranian artist and architect based in Berlin. In her con­tinued work with scroll-format drawings and lightweight installations, she explores the collision between terrestrial and built landscapes. Movement within the realms of in­stability and fixation are filled with melancholia and fascination. She has found constant inspiration in pipelines stretching and curving through fields, connecting one place to another, seeing them as drawings in the landscape. They may appear at first haphazard, but they are in fact shaped by economic and political forces which change the canvas forever.

When something is gone, melancholia takes its place. Contrasting terrains, built and unbuilt, have often been expressed through the juxtapositioning of constructed and fluid lines, or opposing rigid and soft materials such as metal and rubber. The dy­namic behavior of nodes, lines, and geometry in her work emphasizes unstable connections we have to our environment. This can also serve as an image for the fragility and vul­nerability of our existence in an end­less, indifferent feeling cosmos.

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