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Saturday, February 6, 2010



In which empty space are you standing
(Confidence #7)
by Ali Ettehad
Digital print on metalized paper/ Music by Kaveh Kateb/ Texts selected by Masud Shahriari/2010

“The Oracle declares I see visions flowing from quills which soon after shall be impressed upon their land, and quills that recreate these visions yet again. I hear voices uttered by storytellers speaking of a story that shall come to pass, and the same event to be retold yet again by subsequent storytellers.
I see people orbiting themselves [endlessly] from the beginning to the end.”

Armatian, Chapter III , Verse xii and xiii


"In which empty space are you standing"
is created by reproducing selective Negarehs. These Negarehs are selected from different ages of Persian paintings; and the faces of figures are deleted. There are parts of contemporary Iranian novels and stories substituted instead of the original texts. These replaced texts are somehow related to the Negarehs and in the other hand are connected to social history of Iran –during the artist's lifetime. The subject could be the war between Iran and Iraq, the riots in Daneshgah Street, serial murders of intellectuals in Iran and lots of other stories. Just like "Purdahs of silence" this series asks the audience to put themselves in the place of characters in the Negarehs by their own choice: the one who kills; and the one who is being murdered; the torturer and the tormented; the executer and the one who is being executed….
















In which empty space are you standing, at silkroad gallery
opening's photos, 5
th of Feb. 2010








1 comment:

  1. ''I see people orbiting themselves [endlessly] from the beginning to the end.”

    Seems like with this exhibition you ask the people to put themselves in the posiion of non-self, in that of any-self, in order for them to awaken the experience of the core-Self, through entering a collective self.


    you can be anyone is the same as you can be no-one, and when you are no-one, you undress the clothe of the self, and all the ego defence weapons. Then, it is more likely that you awaken the axis of your real self which is the same axis of the existence. Then, all life orbits you, but you are not. This is the living mandala of constant transformation.

    Wish you to become this and help us, through your art see.

    with respect,
    dimi

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