{"id":1209,"date":"2011-01-31T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkingallery.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:08:29","slug":"i-ran-therefore-i-am-nima-esmailpour-at-siin-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"“I RAN, THEREFORE I AM” Nima Esmailpour at SIIN Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFriday, February the 4th, SIIN Art Gallery will host “I RAN, THEREFORE I AM”, an Exhibition by Nima Esmailpour\u00a0Exhibition will last until February 14, 2011. SIIN gallery is a new gallery with an interesting portfolio\u00a0within\u00a0its few months of\u00a0existence,\u00a0\u00a0 which shows various mediums \u00a0in its well designed venue, located in Shahrak-e Gharb, North West of Tehran, which despite it’s large\u00a0population\u00a0lacks the cultural infrastructure it\u00a0deserves, here is the address at No 16\u00a0\u00a0Twelfth St, South Piroozan Ave, Hormozan Ave, Shahrak Gharb,Tehran and\u00a0visiting hours is Daily 3 to 7 pm except on Thursdays.<\/p>\n

Although the text\/letter featured in the press release by Homayoun Sirizi\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0say much about the works neither the poster\u00a0itself but positively makes us curious to see the show:<\/p>\n

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To Nima<\/div>\n
Those days you did not even exist in your mother\u2019s womb, leave alone knowing about Benjamin or<\/div>\n
coming to streets or reading aloud street history book by heart\u2026.<\/div>\n
History had no time for your birth. Those days, nobody had time to hesitate a little. You<\/div>\n
had to escape from bullets, to run from one street to another, so that the bullet darting faster than<\/div>\n
you lost its way in the alleys and hit a wall or someone\u2019s chest. If you even climbed up a tree you<\/div>\n
were not a hundred-years-old crow. Remember it was under the same tree in Bagh-e-Shah that they<\/div>\n
chopped heads off or hung the Sheik from the same branches of the same tree which withered so<\/div>\n
fast in August to make you hesitate for a short time, a very short time\u2026.<\/div>\n
But all those years had turned into a piece of stone in the hands of people and it was thrown<\/div>\n
towards a future blocked by the hangman. Ten, twenty meters further as you bend to pick a stone<\/div>\n
from the pavement, a crow flies away: by instinct, like a man who runs away when he hears the<\/div>\n
sound of a bullet, no matter where and when it is fired, whether it is at the start of a marathon or at<\/div>\n
the end of a peaceful demonstration\u2026 You just run\u2026 which direction? Which end line? Running after<\/div>\n
which prize makes you drag history behind yourself?<\/div>\n
In which day of which month? Is year anything more than one point increase in a number? It<\/div>\n
is apparent from the futility of the calendar made by you that you have engaged in making history.<\/div>\n
As if you are able to write while running.<\/div>\n
The earth intends to continue its circular path forever.<\/div>\n
The mildness of spring and winter revolution is only good for earthworms and radishes.<\/div>\n
Homayoun Sirizi<\/div>\n
Jan. 2011<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, February the 4th, SIIN Art Gallery will host “I RAN, THEREFORE I AM”, an Exhibition by Nima Esmailpour\u00a0Exhibition will last until February 14, 2011. SIIN gallery is a new gallery with an interesting portfolio\u00a0within\u00a0its few months of\u00a0existence,\u00a0\u00a0 which shows various mediums \u00a0in its well designed venue, located in Shahrak-e Gharb, North West of Tehran, … Continue reading “I RAN, THEREFORE I AM” Nima Esmailpour at SIIN Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}