“The artist who pits the political priorities of the moment against the aesthetic demands of the discipline, attempting to do justice to both, is a gambler of great and perilous wager. Usually and predictably, the result is stillborn; a flaccid and sterile studio offspring that harangues its audience with simple-minded partisan sloganeering, diminishing whatever—usually minuscule—aesthetic achievement is on offer. It is testament to the prodigious dexterity the ante requires that so few through deft and sophisticated use of material and method have managed to create works of art that honor and address the discourses of both. Consider artist Nazafarin Lotfi up to the challenge.”