Afrang Nordlöf Malekian (b. 1995, Iran/Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. His practice deals with history’s hidden actors and makers, where historicity is put into use as a form of documentation and aspiration that calls for improbable futurities, examining how narratives, hierarchies, systems, and language disappear, re-appear and return, and transform in the most unexpected ways. It poses the question of how to think about the political expression contained in fleeting moments or mundane actions, which are often dismissed as apolitical. Nordlöf Malekian has previously conducted artistic research at the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, and been a resident at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. He holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute and an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. His work has been shown in places such as the 10th Berlin Biennale, Moderna Museet, Tensta Konsthall, and IASPIS. Nordlöf Malekian’s work is in public collections, including Moderna Museet, Public Art Agency Sweden, and Arab Image Foundation Library.