Event Review
The city of Lahijan is a city in Iran’s North-Western Gilan province, on the shores of Caspian Sea. It is historically the first town in Iran to have tea plantations. With its climate, soil quality and fresh spring water Lahijan stands to have the largest area of tea cultivation in Iran. “Lahijan Spring Tea” is the best quality tea produced in the country.
Group Exhibition of video, Painting, Ready made and Installation opened for few hours on Monday 1est of Feb, 2010 at site of abandoned Saffari Tea Factory and building next to it which was the former residence of Saffari Family and the late owner of the Factory, in Lahijan.
Exhibition presented three Iranian artists : Ahmad Mir Ehsan, Mohammad Zahmatkesh, Mohammad Khodashenas and the German artist Sonya Schönberger.
Ahmad Mir Ehsan’s movie the Winter of Tea was to be projected on the facade of massive building factory which its roof came down due to the heavy snow few years ago, leaving only some trace behind of a decades of activities in the production of tea. The video part of the min documnetary film long is shattered into small fragments by the texture of the old building, gives only glimpse of what is happening but the stroy and dialogue are playing a bigger role which are mainly in northern dialect Gilaki spoken in the region.
Sonya Schönberger is showing her recent project GAZA ON MY MIND, which was realzed in exhibition Galerie Terre Rouge, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg, March 2009.
