Nicky Nodjoumi’s compositions are often oddly unsettling, as though some unknown calamity threatens. Adding to this sense of disquiet, his works are frequently conceived as two moments in time existing simultaneously, as here. In the foreground, a pair of men in suits, archetypal politicians, embrace in agreement as they perhaps decide the fate of some far-off country, maybe Iran, thus relating to the artist’s own history of dislocation. In the background, a well-known scene from the Iranian national epic in which the mythical hero Rustam slays the White Div plays out.