'O sancta simplicitiatas! In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! One can never cease wondering when once one has got eyes for beholding this marvel! How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a godlike desire for wanton pranks and wrong inferences! How from the beginning, we have contrived to retain our ignorance in order to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, thoughtlessness, imprudence, heartiness, and gaiety—in order to enjoy life! And only on this solidified, granite like foundation of ignorance could knowledge rear itself hitherto, the will to knowledge on the foundation of a far more powerful will, the will to ignorance, to the uncertain, to the untrue! Not as its opposite, but—as its refinement!' - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.

  

 Salman Matinfar was born in Tehran, Iran in 1978. In 1994, he received his Bachelor of Arts from the Art and Architecture University in Tehran. In 2012, his first solo exhibition ‘Com/Passion’ was held at Azad Art Gallery in Tehran.