ENGHELÂB / REVOLUTION, 2018
Pigment,Wallpaint, Acrylic, Oil Stick, Wax Stick & Spraycan on
Newpaper Cut Print on Canvas
Newpaper Cut Print on Canvas
444 x 122 cm
Edition of 8 on Canvas
144x 40cm
144x 40cm
Further images
REVOLUTION objectively expresses the fearless energies behind forces of change, but also points towards that transformative original crossroad that changed my life.
“As long as I can loopback it has been Enghelâb : thrown into Revolution as a child 43 years ago, it conditioned life choices - deep emotions that led explorations into memory, displacement, identity.
The panel project surfaced as I researched family documents and put my hands on an original Newsweek copy from January 1979. The main story ran a reportage on the ongoing street violence with photographs by Magnum war photographer Abbas. A specific yellowed double-paged image stuck and I went to transform into a 444cm work an canvas. I met Abbas in Paris in April 2018 to show him the work. He sadly passed away a week later - on April 27th.
The Revolution Panel was primarily confidentially ( and controversially ) unveiled in Tehran’s Villa Sufia Artspace on the Revolutions 40th birthday in February 2019 , announcing what was to erupt. The piece objectively expresses the fearless energies behind forces of change, but also points towards that transformative original crossroad that changed my life."
The panel project surfaced as I researched family documents and put my hands on an original Newsweek copy from January 1979. The main story ran a reportage on the ongoing street violence with photographs by Magnum war photographer Abbas. A specific yellowed double-paged image stuck and I went to transform into a 444cm work an canvas. I met Abbas in Paris in April 2018 to show him the work. He sadly passed away a week later - on April 27th.
The Revolution Panel was primarily confidentially ( and controversially ) unveiled in Tehran’s Villa Sufia Artspace on the Revolutions 40th birthday in February 2019 , announcing what was to erupt. The piece objectively expresses the fearless energies behind forces of change, but also points towards that transformative original crossroad that changed my life."
Exhibitions
Enghelâb Popup - Villa Sufia Tehran - February 2020Publications
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