Kamyar Bineshtarigh was born in the small town of Semnan, about 200 km east of Tehran in Iran, in 1996, and moved to South Africa with his family when he was 15. Based in Cape Town, he works in a variety of media, most notably painting and video. His conceptual concerns range from language and communication in all its forms, to the movement, migration, and displacement of humankind.Here he is captured in his studio in Salt River.