“Baaz in che shouresh ast”
A selection of Photography, Painting, Installation and Video Curated by Arash Fayez
Alireza Adambakan | Azin Agharabi | Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar | Shahpour Pouyan | Newsha Tavakolian | Homayoun Sirizi | Arash Fayez | Azin Feizabadi | Sasan Gharehdaghlou | Katayoun Karami | Anahita Norouzi | Hamed Nouri | Peyman Houshmandzadeh | Mohsen Yazdipour
Opening:
Friday Dec. 25th, 2009 | 4 to 8 pm | 28 Dec. to 5 Jan | Sat. to Wed. from 11 to 7 pm | Thur. from 5 to 8 pm
‘Ashura is the triumph of blood over the sword’. This is the chant I have been hearing since I was a kid and it so happened that the chant was all over the streets on the day I came to hang the works.
It probably was the numerous encounters with this sentence that no halt was allowed; or else… I’m not sure….
However, in time I gained a new understanding of this sentence; that Ashura is not merely a religious and a historical event; that the repetition of this epic has been unfolded through variegated forms and dimensions in different places over the world.
Blood is always triumphant over the sword, though its victory might not be grasped in that very instant. But it will be surely deliberated, throughout the passageway of ages.
Blood is always the same, its the swords that have altered. However, the call for justice will never be trampled underfoot.
Arash Fayez
Silk Road Gallery
103, Lavasani (Farmanieh) St., Tehran, Iran
Tel: +9821 22 72 70 10