On Creating: Nima Nabavi

We met up with Nima Nabavi to discuss what creating means to him. He told us about his grandfather’s influence on his practice, how growing up in 80s Dubai transformed the way he understands aesthetics, and the puzzle of sacred geometries found in nature. Nima Nabavi is a self-taught artist based between Dubai and New York. His practice centers on geometric abstraction and its connection to the natural world and quantum processes. Drawing on an ever-expanding set of tools, ranging from the traditional to the technological, Nabavi creates grid-based compositions of elaborately layered, imagined ordered forms. His mathematical approach and repetitive numeric symbolism rely heavily on advanced planning, precise calculations, and self-developed methodologies to ensure the vital structural accuracy of each work.