{"id":610,"date":"2010-03-02T21:27:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkingallery.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:08:31","slug":"someone-was-here-shirin-sabahi-at-gallery-no-6-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Someone Was Here | Shirin Sabahi at Gallery No 6 | Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Someone Was Here<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;\">Shirin Sabahi at Gallery No 6<br \/>\nOpening: Friday, March 5, 17:00 &#8211; 20:00<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Someone-was-here\" src=\"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/images\/Someone-was-here-shirin.jpg\" alt=\"Someone Was Here by Shirin Sabahi\" width=\"450\" height=\"356\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shirin  Sabahi<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirinsabahi.com\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\u2019s work evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman (1928), a  retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between  1966 and 1979. He visited different Iranian cities on behalf of a  Swedish consulting and engineering company for the purpose of realizing  industrial projects commissioned by various Iranian state-owned and  private industries.<br \/>\nIn the video installation Swede Home  1966\/1973\/1975\/2009*, through cameraman\u2019s gaze in his films and his  vague remembrances of his trips thirty years after, Sabahi takes the  audience back to Iran of the \u201860s and the \u201870s where she herself has no  physical experience of. Activating this non-lived past by means of  someone else\u2019s recollections, Sabahi introduces Edman\u2019s arbitrary  narration to this history which her generation carries variety of it  through different modes of transference; from parents and education to  media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the photo series Untitled (00\u201900\u2019\u2019)  still images of Edman\u2019s films from Iran and Sweden are presented as  double-exposed photographs. In these photographs, Edman\u2019s visual  documentation of the dual locations he lived and worked in points at the  current condition of human mobility and displacement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shirin Sabahi (B. 1984, Tehran)  received her BA in Industrial Design from Iran University of Science and  Technology in 2007 and her MFA from Malm\u00f6 Art Academy in 2009. Her work  has been exhibited at various venues including HISK, Gent; Mercosur  Biennial, Brazil; Pavilh\u00e3o 28, Lisbon and rum46, \u00c5rhus among others.<\/p>\n<p>* Only one of the 2-channel video  projections of Swede Home will be on display at Gallery No. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery No. 6<br \/>\nNo 6, 18th st, Kheradmand-e Shomali, Tehran<br \/>\nMarch 5 &#8211; 10, 2010<br \/>\nSat &#8211; Wed 15:00 &#8211; 19:00<br \/>\nTel: +9821 88346029<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone Was Here<br \/>\nShirin Sabahi at Gallery No 6<br \/>\nShirin Sabahi\u2019s work evolves from 8-mm films taken by Jan Edman (1928), a retired Swedish engineer who traveled to Iran nearly 15 times between 1966 and 1979. He visited different Iranian cities on behalf of a Swedish consulting and engineering company for the purpose of realizing industrial projects commissioned by various Iranian state-owned and private industries.<br \/>\nShirin Sabahi (B. 1984, Tehran) received her BA in Industrial Design from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2007 and her MFA from Malm\u00f6 Art Academy in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at various venues including HISK, Gent; Mercosur Biennial, Brazil; Pavilh\u00e3o 28, Lisbon and rum46, \u00c5rhus among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prg","category-uncategorized-en","category-talent","category-whatson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}