2023 | Iran
A structure, serving as a support for outdoor/ Highway surveillance cameras,
Striving to immerse itself in the artistic realm;
Inherently paradoxical.
Narrative (B)
The object is freezing of time in the intersection of two things:
One static and earth-made, in red and gold
And the other, free, made of sky, in alabaster and silver.
The column is a pole made of earth
Hill-like
elegant
Like an ant’s nest
That emerges from the of the land
/ Forthwith /
The Beam is a white Seemorgh,
opening its wings to welcome the beyond world.
Its chest leans on top of that hill
To bid farewell to the earth
And return to the realm of meaning
That hill is a fragment of the earth
The bird, made of sky.
Narrative (B’)
A more contemplative and hidden part in the question itself, is the surveillance of machines (car surveillance camera) over humans.
Which, on the surface, seems to be the confrontation of machine (camera) against machine (car),
But in reality, it tells the story of human, struggling against human:
One in the position of observer and legislator, at a six-meter level from the ground
And the other, a human and a caravan in motion, on the ground
The relationship between these two, is in a vertical structure, defined in the artificial contractual framework under the name “law”:
The converter of “personal desire” to “public good”, which is essentially the regulator of collective life.
But the main question is:
Once upon a time, the machine was born into the hands of the craftsman, and was itself its agent and cause.
But in the contemporary flood of overturns,
It has come to a point where the machine (camera) illuminates whether a human is guilty or not
In this game, humans become robots in motion, between lines, at a certain speed.
Complete superiority of machine over humans?!
A human who is the soul of that land
And devoid of will!
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6.5×7 meter
Towerco Holding
Natalie Ishoonejadian
Mona Afrazi
Armin Arefi Nik
Fatemeh Shahrestani
Forough Seyyedi
Pilot