Arash Nassiri. A Bug’s Life

Co-commissioned in collaboration with Chisenhale Gallery, London, and Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, ›A Bug’s Life‹ offers a surreal journey through an opulent Beverly Hills mansion. The building is one of the last examples of a once distinctive and later banned architectural micro-movement, brought by immigrants who came to the US at the turn of the 1979 Iranian revolution. A wooden insect puppet moves through a palatial interior amid echoing conversations, framing the home as a site of aspiration and erasure where personal and architectural histories intersect.

Following presentations at Chisenhale Gallery and Fondation Pernod Ricard, the exhibition will open at Fluentum in Berlin on 9 SEP 2026, on the occasion of Berlin Art Week. During the course of the exhibition, Fluentum will publish a book by Arash Nassiri that expands on the film‘s exploration of Iranian-American domestic architecture through archival materials, newly commissioned texts, and visual research gathered during the development of ›A Bug’s Life‹.