Artista, MIA Fair 2023 @ Ag
Mohsen Yazdipour, A Sight Not to See, 2016-2018
Courtesy: Artist and Ag Galerie
Digital photography, Inkjet print
Digital photography, Inkjet print
Dimensioni / Size: 24x36 cm
Edizione / Edition: 1/7
Prezzo / Price: 300
A Sight (Not) To See
The experience of living for thirty years in one of the older neighborhoods of Tehran, with its different localities and residents, has formed the way I look at and understand life. It is a way of living in this city from which I cannot easily detach myself.
I look back and memories of that house, neighborhood, school, university, and mandatory military service are tied to the geography of Baharestan Square, Pich-e Shemiran, and Enghelab Avenue. The old names of the city come alive to the tune of my grandmother’s voice: Derakhti Bus Stop, Valiabad Public Bath, Chekonam Square….
In those days, the city was still in human scale. We'd see things and keep them in mind. Our memories were tied to our feet and we'd summon them with every step.
Today, however, my home is surrounded by expressways!
Modernism has changed the coordinates of my life by changing my modes of relocation within the city. For me a "trip" was to go to another town; now, it's urban commuting. Expressions like "daily commute" and "city trips" are part of my daily life.
City trips no longer give me space to observe, communicate, or save experience to memory - they have become opportunities to act out, to make quick and transitory observations. It is as if "Greater Tehran" no longer cared for the way we communicate with it; no longer paid attention to collective memories of a generation.
Spending long hours in expressways of Tehran have opened new vistas and spaces for me, something akin to the wanderings of a child in his/her first encounter with the world; surrounded by giant structures!
I have arrived at a new understanding of life with this new lifestyle: "Crossroad" contradicts our wider view of the earth.
A Sight (Not) To See
The experience of living for thirty years in one of the older neighborhoods of Tehran, with its different localities and residents, has formed the way I look at and understand life. It is a way of living in this city from which I cannot easily detach myself.
I look back and memories of that house, neighborhood, school, university, and mandatory military service are tied to the geography of Baharestan Square, Pich-e Shemiran, and Enghelab Avenue. The old names of the city come alive to the tune of my grandmother’s voice: Derakhti Bus Stop, Valiabad Public Bath, Chekonam Square….
In those days, the city was still in human scale. We'd see things and keep them in mind. Our memories were tied to our feet and we'd summon them with every step.
Today, however, my home is surrounded by expressways!
Modernism has changed the coordinates of my life by changing my modes of relocation within the city. For me a "trip" was to go to another town; now, it's urban commuting. Expressions like "daily commute" and "city trips" are part of my daily life.
City trips no longer give me space to observe, communicate, or save experience to memory - they have become opportunities to act out, to make quick and transitory observations. It is as if "Greater Tehran" no longer cared for the way we communicate with it; no longer paid attention to collective memories of a generation.
Spending long hours in expressways of Tehran have opened new vistas and spaces for me, something akin to the wanderings of a child in his/her first encounter with the world; surrounded by giant structures!
I have arrived at a new understanding of life with this new lifestyle: "Crossroad" contradicts our wider view of the earth.
Mohsen Yazdipour
Iran @ Iran
Mohsen Yazdipour (Tehran, 1980)
MA. Photography, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019: A Sight Not to See, Ag Galerie, Iran
2012: Breath, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010: My First Name Soldier, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018: “In the Fields of Empty Days”, LACMA (Los Angeles county Museum of Art), California, USA
2017: “It is us, not them”, Ariana Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017: “Iran Year 38”, Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
2016: “Flanerie ”, KAAF institute, Tehran, Iran
2016: “Bi Naam”, Richmond house, Bristol, England
2015: “Enghelab Street”, ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2015: “Cinder Carpet”, Mehrva Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014: Contemporary Iranian Photography, Fine Arts Gallery of California State University, Los Angeles, USA
2014: “Present Perfect”, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK
2013: “Silence”, Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012: “Unnamed”, Fotography Gallery, Cardiff, UK
2011: “TV”, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010: “Tehran Documented”, Aran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009: “Ashura”, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009: “165 years of Iranian photography”, Muse du quai Branly, Paris, France 2008-2010: “Ey! Iran” Contemporary Iranian photography, New Zealand
2008: “Inner Eye”, Photography Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Teh- ran, Iran
2006-2008: “Ey! Iran” Contemporary Iranian photography, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Australia
2004: “Iranian Springs”, Fnac Montparnasse, Paris, France
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2017: Art Residency, DAAD Award, Berlin, Germany
2007: First Prize Winner, Negah Photography Competition, Niavaran Palace, Tehran, Iran
2004: Selected Second Photographer of the Year, “Dialogue”, Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran, Iran
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS
2019: "A Sight (Not) To See " Book- Photo Series, Nazar Publication, Teh- ran, Iran
2010: "EYE " Book- Photo Series, No.26 , Mahriz Publication, Tehran, Iran 2012-2013: Harpers Bazar Art, UAE
2011: La photographie iranienne (Un regard sur la création contemporaine en Iran), LOCO/Silk Road Gallery, France
2017: "Iran year 38", Coedition Textuel/ Arte editions, Paris, France 2015: "Contemporary Iranian Art, Roots and New PercpectiveS" Hamid Keshmir- shekan, Nazar PublicationS, Tehran,Iran
2014: "Amazingly Original: Contemporary Iranian Art at CrossroadS", Mazda Publishers, California, USA
2011: "La photography Iranienne", Published by Editions Loco, Paris, France 2006: "Ey! iran " Contemporary Iranian photography, Published by Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2005: Private Magazine, "I wake in your eyes" Issue No.30, Saint Brisson, France
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