'human, earth, words'
Mehregan Meysami
Printed in limited edition of 50 on Munken polar 120 gsm and 240 gsm paper at The Royal Art Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
size: 20 cm x 14.5 cm
70 pages
perfect bound
This book is published on the occasion of MFA exhibition Among Pebbles and Diamonds at Galleri Mejan, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.
December 2021
"human, earth, words" is a book about the relationship between human, language and earth, through the framework of poetry of an Iranian poet Ehsan Tabari. The main focus of the book is on the definition of "human" and "politics" in relation to the silent wounds and inter-generational traumas that live long after a catastrophe.
The book is a re-contextuliazation of Agamben's "homosacer" and “bare life”reflecting on "dehumanization" and political life, and unfolding the process of systemic dehumanization in which, "words" become the mediator of violence, and certain landscape on "earth" becomes the designated site of punishment for the degraded "human".
"Considering Homosacer as a condition or a status that constantly exceeds the dominant norm, Homosacer is the wretched, the degraded, the despicable the abominable, who is going to be hurt. The rigid order—as the first word, good and bad, right and wrong, and ideological and theological doctrines—is the dominant norm, leading to repression and Homosacer with their position in relation to the rigid order, initiates resistance and confrontation of the exceptional condition, for not letting the "bare life" to become chronic".