Maps for a voyage to Mount Qaf

An installation for the Selected project of Aria Gallery Curatorial Open Call, May 2022, Tehran (IR)
Curated by Helia Hamedani


“The exhibition Maps for a voyage to Mount Qaf was the result of a continuous dialogue, in which storytelling, the effort to imagine invisible maps, visualize imaginary journeys, indicate absent bodies, tell forgotten distorted or untold stories, and create temporary spaces in which people can meet are common in their artistic practice. 

Curtain-shaped fabrics, letters, drawings, archives, photographs and videos, imaginary calendars and diaries somehow take the form of a practice similar to what happens on the thousand and one nights, where every day the narrator slows down the advent of the disaster and makes other possibilities imaginable by telling a story”

Quted from Helia Hamedani’s article in Nero magazine. Complete article is here.

“On the first floor, the work of Golrokh Nafisi includes stories and fragments of her project Continuous Cities, from her larger project Barzakh. In Islamic philosophy texts Barzakh is considered an intermediate space where everything is possible, so much so that opposite concepts can coexist in the same temporal space. The pieces of the Continuous Cities are presented in the form of curtains and flags which are hanging from the ceiling and unfold as travel diaries, collective calendars, and opposite words. Since 2017, these fabric collages have been conceived for various occasions, which they have been inhabiting as backdrops, as diverse as folk festivals or concerts such as the Nouruz Bal festival—the water and fire festival in Gilan (Northern Iran), and visual arts performances and exhibitions.”

Quted from Helia Hamedani’s article in Nero magazine. Complete article is here.

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