Among Pebbles and Diamonds
Two channel video projection, 16mm film transferred to HD, 11 min, two channel sound, speakers, projectors, transducers, laser print, canvas
2021
“Among Pebbles and Diamonds” is a landscape duet; for “the land of rugged mountains, vast deserts” and “the land of endless heavenly waters”. It is about: the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, the violence that is embedded in the landscape.
The installation deals with an interstice where is as political as it is poetic, where the knowledge is never in view, but always found in the gaps, where poets are the historians, where the poetic and the political cannot be separated, and poetry is necessarily political.
The title of the work is borrowed from the poem “Among Pebbles and Diamonds” written by the Iranian poet Ehsan Tabari in 1977.
Ehsan Tabari was a poet, writer, linguist, Marxist theorist and philosopher, who was subject of brutal torture and forced confession since 1982 until his death in custody in 1989.
Among Pebbles and Diamonds
Two channel video projection, 16mm film transferred to HD, 11 min, two channel sound, speakers, projectors, transducers, laser print, canvas
2021
“Among Pebbles and Diamonds” is a landscape duet; for “the land of rugged mountains, vast deserts” and “the land of endless heavenly waters”. It is about: the aftermath of the Iranian revolution in 1979, the violence that is embedded in the landscape.
The installation deals with an interstice where is as political as it is poetic, where the knowledge is never in view, but always found in the gaps, where poets are the historians, where the poetic and the political cannot be separated, and poetry is necessarily political.
The title of the work is borrowed from the poem “Among Pebbles and Diamonds” written by the Iranian poet Ehsan Tabari in 1977.
Ehsan Tabari was a poet, writer, linguist, Marxist theorist and philosopher, who was subject of brutal torture and forced confession since 1982 until his death in custody in 1989.