Bahman Farrokh

Bahman Farrokh trained in a Tehran metalworking shop that supplied gates and railings to construction sites, and still uses the same oxy-acetylene torch he learned on. His own work inverts what he was trained to build: rather than doorways, thresholds, and lintels meant to frame passage, he welds the same raw steel into low, wide forms with no opening left in them — objects meant to be stepped over, not through. He leaves weld seams visible and lets mill scale darken unevenly rather than grinding the surface smooth, so each piece carries a visible record of the heat that shaped it. Farrokh works from a single-room studio behind his family's old shop. His pieces reach ATG through a screened export partner.

Bahman Farrokh welds raw steel into low, wide forms meant to be stepped over rather than looked up at — thresholds, gates, and lintels stripped of the doorways they used to belong to.

Tehran, Iran

That a threshold stripped of its doorway still asks you to notice the act of crossing it.