Friday, February the 4th, SIIN Art Gallery will host “I RAN, THEREFORE I AM”, an Exhibition by Nima Esmailpour Exhibition will last until February 14, 2011. SIIN gallery is a new gallery with an interesting portfolio within its few months of existence, which shows various mediums in its well designed venue, located in Shahrak-e Gharb, North West of Tehran, which despite it’s large population lacks the cultural infrastructure it deserves, here is the address at No 16 Twelfth St, South Piroozan Ave, Hormozan Ave, Shahrak Gharb,Tehran and visiting hours is Daily 3 to 7 pm except on Thursdays.
Although the text/letter featured in the press release by Homayoun Sirizi doesn’t say much about the works neither the poster itself but positively makes us curious to see the show:
To Nima
Those days you did not even exist in your mother’s womb, leave alone knowing about Benjamin or
coming to streets or reading aloud street history book by heart….
History had no time for your birth. Those days, nobody had time to hesitate a little. You
had to escape from bullets, to run from one street to another, so that the bullet darting faster than
you lost its way in the alleys and hit a wall or someone’s chest. If you even climbed up a tree you
were not a hundred-years-old crow. Remember it was under the same tree in Bagh-e-Shah that they
chopped heads off or hung the Sheik from the same branches of the same tree which withered so
fast in August to make you hesitate for a short time, a very short time….
But all those years had turned into a piece of stone in the hands of people and it was thrown
towards a future blocked by the hangman. Ten, twenty meters further as you bend to pick a stone
from the pavement, a crow flies away: by instinct, like a man who runs away when he hears the
sound of a bullet, no matter where and when it is fired, whether it is at the start of a marathon or at
the end of a peaceful demonstration… You just run… which direction? Which end line? Running after
which prize makes you drag history behind yourself?
In which day of which month? Is year anything more than one point increase in a number? It
is apparent from the futility of the calendar made by you that you have engaged in making history.
As if you are able to write while running.
The earth intends to continue its circular path forever.
The mildness of spring and winter revolution is only good for earthworms and radishes.
Homayoun Sirizi
Jan. 2011
