Impulse: Nasim Nasr

"In my Measure of Love photographic series, I acknowledge the immeasurable tears that human beings can shed throughout life. This series is about my personal 

relationship with tears, emotions and love.

Being born in the middle of the Iran-Iraq War I have found myself hugely emotional in response to life—from such points as when I realised my freedom as an artist and female was taken away from me in Iran, then emigration to a country of deep contrast and separation from my parents, to the global pandemic and the countless tears shed for another separation from loved ones, and for people—women and artists in Iran—who are now more than ever screaming for their freedom and yet struggling everyday. 

Love and tears always have a strong bonding, and placing myself in these photos I am passionate about what might possibly measure one's emotion or love for something, someone, for home, people, and freedom. Tears at the time of wars and celebrations in life and in history. 

These tear bottles have become a metaphor, my ‘babies’, extremely difficult objects to make, fragile yet much stronger than they look, born and made to measure human emotions, individually and collectively."

- Nasim Nasr