Kamyar Bineshtarigh’s minimal brush strokes comment on the functionality of language, the nuances of translation, and perceptions of otherness; his videography evidences the artist’s quiet documentarian observations of movement, with an understanding of gesture that manifests in all of his projects. The Iranian, Cape Town-based artist doesn’t consider himself a calligrapher per se; his craft functions as a kind ofcriticism onto itself and on what our standards, knowledge, and preconceptions of what actual Persian Nasta’liq ought to look like. …
