{"id":561,"date":"2010-02-08T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkingallery.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:08:31","slug":"in-which-empty-space-are-you-standing-at-silk-road-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"In which empty space are you standing at Silk Road Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/parkingallery.com\/images\/empty-place.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"empty-place.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/parkingallery.com\/images\/empty-place.jpg\" alt=\"Poster designed by Amirali Ghasemi\" width=\"428\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In which empty space are you standing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>In which empty space are you standing<br \/>\n(Confidence #7)<br \/>\nby Ali Ettehad<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">Digital print on metalized paper\/ Music by Kaveh Kateb\/ Texts selected by Masud Shahriari\/2010<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/inwhichemptyspaceareyoustanding.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to see some images from the exhibition.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--> <em>\u201cThe Oracle declares I see visions flowing from quills which soon after shall be impressed upon their land, and quills that recreate these visions yet again.\u00a0I hear voices uttered by storytellers speaking of a story that shall come to pass, and the same event to be retold yet again by subsequent storytellers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>I see people orbiting themselves [endlessly] from the beginning to the end.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Armatian, Chapter III , Verse xii and xiii<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>&#8220;In which empty space are you standing&#8221; <\/em>is created by reproducing selective\u00a0<em>Negarehs<\/em>. These\u00a0<em>Negarehs<\/em> are selected from different ages of Persian paintings; and the faces of figures are deleted. There are parts of contemporary Iranian novels and stories substituted instead of the original texts. These replaced texts are somehow related to the Negarehs and in the other hand are connected to social history of Iran \u2013during the artist&#8217;s lifetime. The subject could be the war between Iran and Iraq, the riots in<em>Daneshgah<\/em> Street, serial murders of intellectuals in Iran and lots of other stories. Just like\u00a0<em>&#8220;Purdahs of silence&#8221;<\/em> this series asks the audience to put themselves in the place of characters in the\u00a0<em>Negarehs<\/em> by their own choice: the one who kills; and the one who is being murdered; the torturer and the tormented; the executer and the one who is being executed\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which empty space are you standing (Confidence #7) by Ali Ettehad Digital print on metalized paper\/ Music by Kaveh Kateb\/ Texts selected by Masud Shahriari\/2010 Click here to see some images from the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}