Bāygān: House of Photographs and Words
Photo
Mehrdad Naraghi
Untitled from the series The House
2009

Text

Sara Yektapour

Forgotten

I look at a light that gently separates those dusty layers and tries to breathe life into this faint, sleeping space. A flicker falls upon the curtain and reveals its decay. The curtain seems to crawl a little more, then falls to the ground, ending its companionship with a box that I doubt can still cast its magic.

I try to explore this closed corner by looking through it, and once again, I turn to reflection to find traces of this hidden space—the temporary image cast on the screen of a broken television. But this image disturbs me; a disturbance like a trick of memory. It’s as if I’m watching the process of a fading memory that once brought me joy every time I recalled it—a memory I used to remember until recently but now its images have been wiped from my mind, leaving only a ghost in my recollection. On the other hand it reminds me of moments when I forget what I wanted to say and lose all clues to the excitement I once felt trying to express it. A troubling sense of failure consumes my entire mind.