This Kind of Sabri’s works are mattresses that have reached an unusual synthesis with architecture. With a tendency toward a new concept inspired by the Iranian architecture, the artist tries to reconstruct the memory of the symbolic buildings of Iran’s different historical periods.

He seeks narratives that on one hand are deeply rooted in the ancient history and traditions of his country, and on the other, reflect on the Iranian’s nostalgia, a nation forced to leave its cultural generative ground after withstanding the pressures and constraints of social, cultural and economic restrictions of the liberal society in the past decades. They moved on to postmodernism without ever deeply experiencing modernism or preserving their ecological and urban relations. Ironically in such circumstances, they are maintaining what is written as a universal scenario.

Sabri is looking for certain things that have been lost for decades; the commotion of life, men, women, children, births and deaths. He pursues the turning point in ancient art and Iranian traditional architecture to convert it into a dual past-present axis. Upon assessing this axis he will be able to find a worthy synthesis for his time, the contemporary art.

Kambiz Sabri is an artist, in an attempt to find the formal elements of traditional art and architecture and their decorative or practical aspects and combining them with contemporary elements such as TV, Video, photography, etc. And at the end, he creates a new structure containing all the existing elements.

Ziai Mob, Critic and editor