Mohsen Shahmardi
Untitled from the series Return
2011-2018
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Sara YektapourCycle
Its pure and white body and its legs in a running posture do not let me succumb
to the concept of death. Here must be a tangible purgatory, where I can neither
say it is alive nor see it as dead—this creature flowing over the furrows made
by the plow; over the idle furrows, half-covered with weeds.
Between the barren earth and the fruitless sky, a mound-like form, more alive
than skin yet more lifeless than stone, has grown. The eye follows the
direction of the furrows, circles around it, and returns to the animal’s body,
and this cycle repeats endlessly. The picture is so alive that I can feel the
texture of the earth’s body and the animal’s body under my fingers, and
simultaneously, as if dust of death has been sprinkled over it, it is gray and
cold. Yes, I think here must be a tangible
purgatory.
