Testimonies 2009-2024

Testimonies is a book by artist Golrokh Nafisi that collects illustrations and posters from 2009 to the present. Each of them belongs to a popular revolt or a moment in the lives of ordinary people that shaped those revolts. The poster archive contains visuals that were made quickly and in the midst of collective and revolutionary events. Nafisi gathered her prints together as a visual report of her peers, “A visual report of what lives in the memory of our bodies.”

Courtesy of Nafisi herself, Framer Framed is selling limited edition number hand-printed, signed and numbered by the artist. This publication features texts by Golrokh Nafisi, Asef Bayat, Jonas Staal, Giulia Crispiani, Sumayya Kassamali, Elham Rahmati and Rime Naguib.

Golrokh Nafisi a long-time collaborator of Framer Framed having presented an iteration of her performance titled Manifesto Against Nostalgia (2019) in Amsterdam together with Giulia Crispiani and Ahmadali Kadivar. In 2022, Nafisi prestented the book Gham/Tristezza/Sorrow at Framer Framed, a work that documents a correspondence between Golrokh Nafisi and Giulia Crispiani, between Tehran and Rome.

In 2023 Golrokh Nafisi became an artist-in-reisdence at Werkplaats Molenwijk, a project space of Framer Framed. Her research and drawings were collected in the publication Walvistraan: A Love Story in a Time of Extinction and Isolation (2023), which she wrote in collaboration with Ahmadali Kadivar and was published by Framer Framed.